I tend to write more when I travel.

Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD, so I need some kind of focus or I go a bit extreme. I need work to keep me sensible.

I think the best thing your parents can do for you is to let you be yourself.

New York has a great energy, but London is better.

Dad always told me that if you're going to work on something, it might as well be something you're proud of.

You have to give to be able to receive.

Although I've watched myself making the transition from being a girl to being a woman, I still feel 15 years old. My reflection disagrees.

I put myself under immense pressure.

As an actress, you have to keep yourself fresh and new.

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

I was 18 when I got my first acting job.

One aspect of perfection, after all, it stands to reason, will be that our need for imperfection will cease. Or, perhaps more precisely: that imperfection itself will cease to have meaning.

Success emerges from the quality of the decisions we make and the quantity of luck we receive. We can't control luck. But we can control the way we make choices.

He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.

Good people were also capable of doing very bad things.

You can't really feel the direct change from one president to another versus people closer to you in local elections.

People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.

If you can't do it, don't do it.

My culinary wardrobe is the same as my biking wardrobe, just no shoes.

If you think life is a smooth sea, you will soon be awakened from this sweet dream by the slap of a bitter wave!

Trust emerges when we have a sense that another person or organization is driven by things other than their own self-gain.