I think there will always be a double standard between males and females, so I think that an actress is more likely to protect her public persona, so to speak, than an actor would be.

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.

One... moment you think it's the end. But it isn't, it's just the beginning.

If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.

Drinking the energy of the universeBreathing along with the CosmosWith each breathI am rebornInto a brand new existence.

The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle.

Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing The Bear. I thought, What if I just stopped and listened?

Divine love always has been, and always will be, the answer that you seek.

If we can reduce the risk of friction likely to lead to war, this is probably all we can reasonably hope to achieve.

Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.

Of course it looks bad when you're not executing. When things go bad, it's not going to look good.

I think if you're going to show a true representation of any one life, it can't be about any one thing. I try to see more of a full picture, with the romance just a single part.