If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.

Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.

I don't mind cleaning up the mess that some other folks made, that's what I signed up to do

I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.

A light hand is one which never feels the contact of the bit with the bars.

....he said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'textured' was interesting, and the scar meant that I was stronger than whatever had tried to hurt me.

I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood

Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

It's safer to do nothing and know why you doing it, than to do something and don't know why you do it.