I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

Whatever you are made of, be the best of that.

A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.

Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.

But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

Being alive is sign of strength!

We never looked quite right on paper, but that's what made us so great. We were exactly what we wanted to be...and that was happy.

Hats, like first husbands in my experience, are usually a mistake.

Each of us was saved by God not only to enjoy the kingdom of God but also to have a victorious life here on earth

Most of the major consumer-goods companies roll out their marketing programs in the I-4 corridor. It reflects what America looks like.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

From every conceivable angle-economic social, cultural, public health, national defense-conservation of natural resources is an objective on which all should agree.

This was the last thing I expected. You destroy my life and then feed me some inspiratonal philosophy.

Sticks and stones may break me, but the words you said just tore my heart in two.

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.