I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.'

I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom.

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.

All my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.

Fill what is empty, empty what is full, and scratch where it itches.

My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.

They aren't making mirrors like they use to.

But a movie doesn't have to be good if it has Hugh Jackman.

We can't dispose of the everydayness of people's struggles. We have to build a world that is ultimately supposed to be, very simply, everybody doing what they are happiest doing.

I don't look in the mirror and think that I have flaws. I actually look in the mirror and see me. I see a lot of different characters and a lot of different things.

I just love creating an environment where people can open up and say what's on their mind and in their heart.

The purpose of God and the power of God is available for every man.

Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.

I would like to lose some of the weight that I have put on since I stopped playing football.

Perhaps Clankers and Darwinists would always be at war, if only in their hearts.

It's not a party until the fire department shows up.

For a long time, I was almost ashamed of being an actress. I felt like it was a shallow occupation. People would be watching my every move.