I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.

Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back since, but I was very appreciative of the experience.

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

You can never stop discovering music.

I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend.

Don’t try to change the world. To find yourself in a new world, change your thoughts.

Use your special skills for the service of humanity.

And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.

A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.

Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die. Claudia: And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.

I’m going with Darrelle Revis.

Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.

~beautiful soul weeps deep~

Life is a series of triumphs and disappointments. Once you harness the disappointments, your triumphs will be greater.

I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times.