I heard that a lot and I just sort of thought, the world was an even more interesting place than the people who were making the decisions were perhaps interpreting it to be.

Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.

As a woman, we all want to feel attractive. We all want to feel that we're making the very best of ourselves so we can accept ourselves.

Everyone has something that defines them, whether they're wildly intelligent or whether they have really big feet.

Game of Thrones' is a fantasy show not dedicated to any specific time, but it seems to exist in sort of a 1400s medieval fantasy world, and in that setting, I wouldn't have had a six-pack.

I'm just not wearing any makeup. People thinking I'm wearing prosthetics of all sorts, I just don't have any makeup on.

I was really, really lucky because I have always worked. It hasn't always been consistent, but I have always worked.

I built stages and I did stage management - I think I built the sets twice, I happened to be good with a drill, which is a talent I didn't know I had.

I never wanted to be a fashion designer, although there is a book somewhere of fashion design I did for a collection when I was seven years old. I always wanted to be an actor.

I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.

I don't really have any interest in playing the same part again and again. Let's just keep everything crossed that doesn't happen.

Nothing can save something that is not meant to be, no matter how hard you try.

I know the pundits, they get big bucks for . . . pundating.

You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be.

Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?

I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices, I'm going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the block.

President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.

I know change can be painful. But from change comes growth.

What stirs my passion is making cinema, and that means doing different things, making different types of films.

When you can't solve the problem, manage it.

However, crisis in world trade is, among other things, the result of using political tools in competition or simply for achieving political objectives with the help of economic restrictions.