I want to keep making movies, hopefully with some nominations, if I'm lucky! Movies that make people feel something, where they walk away and say, "Gosh, she's different."

I think everything about my life is magical. I've struggled, and against most odds, I'm truly having the experience of living my dreams.

Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.

If someone is trying to bring you down, it only means you're above them.

Don't try to impress people. Always be yourself!

You always just have to be the best that you can be. And if you know that in your heart, then that's all that matters.

Dancing inspires my music. Having your girlfriends all together and just being free and happy.

I believe that anyone can become better,if you put in the effort.

I don't want to be that girl who has that same style all the time where the music always sounds exactly the same, and you always know it's her.

My makeup artist, Tonya Brewer, taught me the importance of moisturizing daily. Hydration is a must if you want pretty, dewy skin - which I love.

I love Michael Kors! I also love Miu Miu shoes - they're fabulous, I have so many pairs.

The Imperial Concubine was fully aware of her own beauty, and she tended to be attracted by any force, such as religion, that treated her beauty and her high rank as things of no value.

Our future lies to the east and south, in Asia and Africa.

I do believe that any successful business starts from the top and works its way down.

When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.

I want to spend more time with my family, but I'm not sure they want to spend more time with me.

Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little - oh, I admit only a very little - of what life is about.

Most men I know, pissed away their fortunes. I'm the only one I know, that made a fortune pissin'

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone.

It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.