I never thought I was somebody that would be on the cover of magazines in fashions, wearing fashions. It's like not me. But that is what movie stardom entails.

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.

There's just one advice for an aspiring writer write.

But the more I think about it, the more I think PC words are a crock of shit. If I want to describe something using a stupid word, I should.

The most beautiful temple in the universe is your soul

Believing in miraculosity makes it even more available to us.

It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Does that really work, converting someone with a bumper sticker? How weak of a mind do you have to have?

Money is worth what it will help you to produce or buy and no more.

You will soon discover that in matters of the heart, memories are much kinder than reality

As an actor, you never try to be someone else. You can't.