I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

I'll mix a lot of things. I'll wear a Temperley dress with flip flops, or I might be in head-to-toe Gucci and have on a ring that I got from a gumball machine for 50 cents.

You’ve got to visualize where you’re headed and be very clear about it. Take a polaroid picture of where you’re going to be in a few years.

Ensure that you do things differently from everyone else

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know.

I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.

I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course.

My saddlebags are why Spanx exist! Now that I have a baby I also have a muffin top.

If we can put a man on the moon, we can make pantyhose comfortable.

Instead of failure being the outcome, failure became not trying. And it forced me at a young age to want to push myself so much further out of my comfort zone.

Your wife is a big hippo! My face is melting! My face is meltinnnnggg!

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

I don't keep a dog and bark myself.

I tell my piano the things I used to tell you

A lot of things affect women differently than men, and women get left out.

I've never been a sunny personality. I've never been outgoing. I'm a solitary person.

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.

There are some cloudy days for the mind as well as for the world; and the man who has the most genius is twenty times a day in the clouds.

Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena.

As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth.