In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot.

I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.

Family is becoming more and more important to me.

I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington.

Looking back at it now, I really feel like it was a gift because I don’t know if I have the talent to become a prima ballerina. It’s such a hard job to have. I don’t have any regrets about it.

I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love.

What you wear is such an expression of who you are. That's like someone picking out who I'm going to date!

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.

People always think I’m dainty when they meet me, but I’m really not. I’m very German – we’re not made out of sugar.

I don't believe in marriage. I believe in a commitment that you make in your heart. There's no paper that will make you stay.

Whenever and wherever you put yourself in touch with GOD, that is the state of meditation.

Love is not blind. Infatuation is blind. Love is all-seeing and still accepting.

My mother told me, 'Always do your best, ' and my dad says, 'It's important to be humble. That's the key. They're not there for you. You're there for them.'

As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven meant. I had a choice, and it was not to divide my family in my heart.

The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010.

At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window.

You just gotta do what you gotta do whatcha can.

I don't feel anything right now. I am just preparing, that's it.

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.