I've always been kind of an escape artist. I think that I thought the day-to-day reality of things was unbearably flat.

I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.

I don't believe makeup and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experience.

Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.

The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.

We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group.

To really achieve any level of greatness, you have to be willing to say yes no matter who says no, and to say no no matter who says yes.

Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence.

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.

I'm very old-fashioned. Occasionally I do wear underwear.

Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.

A great teacher is one that helps their students to become great. In return, the students appreciate the teacher for their success.

If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there".

Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.

If you have created an image of yourself at 13 and it is still with you at 17, it needs to be dropped.

I have confidence that whatever I set in my mind will happen. Everything I strived for I reached.

People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent.

My mother and father have brought us up to respect everyone with the same equal love and honor them, and you're supposed to honor your profession.

I think I'm going to be stereotyped forever, but I'm not scared of being stereotyped.

The way that you become world-class is... by asking good questions.