I'm very lucky, I do have an amazing husband.

I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man.

I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley.

Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.

I think that you have to restrain yourself from googling your name and have other hobbies and desires and wants. You do a million things. You go to school, you write, you read, you blog.

Always have a backup plan.

My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.

I was really good at saying no. I decided I was just going to say yes to any opportunity that came, no matter how crazy. And it changed my life.

Christian Louboutins are uncomfortable, but I screamed the first time I put on a Pointe Shoe.

I'm still a 'Star Trek' fan. You never stop being one.

It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.

You can't not approve a merger because you don't like the companies' politics. That's just not right.

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.

To me the Bible is not God, but it is God's voice, and I do not hear it without awe

Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.

I like a good challenge. And I like to feel that I'm always learning something new.

Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.

I have found that by trusting people until they prove themselves unworthy of that trust, a lot more happens.

I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.