I would have played street cop number three if it meant getting to work with Chris Nolan.

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.

The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.

Tina Fey is one of my heroes.

I try to be careful not to do single concerts where I fly out, do my show, turn around and go home.

It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service.

Citizenship is the right to have rights.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader

Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.

My buildings should have an emotional core –a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

We can support President Barack Obama, because he supports us. We can support Barack Obama, because he shares our values and our vision.

I don't wanna believe that racism exists, but the more I wish it away, the more I realize it's in our system.