I want to make smart choices.

I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.

I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.

I like to scare myself and throw myself off the deep end.

The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.

I love all things Christmas.

I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.

The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.

There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.

It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.

When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.

The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.

The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.

However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around me.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.