I was not born a size 2. I'm not skinny, period. I'm not willing to sleep with the director or step on somebody else's neck to get the job.

Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.

Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.

I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.

I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.

My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.

No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

Whether we stay or whether we go - to be courageous is to stay close to the way we are made.

I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.

No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.

I laugh a lot and laugh loudly!

There are a lot of difficult situations that lead to awkwardness.

I'm the biggest Chekov fan - there's something that he does that not many other writers do.

In any moment, I guess we could whip out a guitar and start playing old school.

I improvised my life along the way - I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.

Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of business.

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