I'm not apologizing for what I did. I'm apologizing for what I didn't do.

Play my own game. You can read all the books, but you have to listen to your intuition and not do everything exactly as they say. You have to do what feels right.

Im wearing an outfit that looks just like a cupcake ... a pink frothy blouse, low cut ... everything a little inappropriately girlie ... Pink, pink, lot of pink, ... Out of Practice.

That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else-I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.

Everybody knows that love goes away.

If I was like some of the characters I played, I'd probably be dead by now.

Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to L.A. And I thought, "I want to sell out!"

A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.

I would rather be loved by somebody who respected me.

I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.

My mother had all these maxims-like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

It’s been a long, rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

I was extremely moved by the plight of Tsunami victims and I was inspired to try to make a difference.

It's a little strange when you have never been to war, and you eye-roll about a guy who's got shrapnel still in his body, as Chuck Hagel does.

There are definitely worse people to be compared with. I think Brad Pitt makes interesting decisions.

When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit.

You're never too young or too old to make your own kind of mark in your own kind of time. You're never the wrong age to release the power within you to create the life you deserve.

If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as a woman first? Look out. Whoever asks this hates and fears both writing and women.

Each and every living being in nature is part of God's body.

Have you ever gotten breathless before from a beautiful face, for i see you there, my dear.