It's a lot of fun to just say to people, proudly, 'I get to play the First Lady.' It's just fun to say.

You gotta love yourself, because when you're hurting - you never know who's gonna be around to do the lovin' for ya. You gotta love yourself through the pain.

I think true beauty is everywhere. Be it. See it. Notice it. Love it. Be grateful for it. Marvel at it. It's everywhere. It's all around us all the time.

There's a lot of life on the planet that needs love, wants love, deserves love, in whatever capacity we are able.

Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult.

I have to welcome the pain like I welcome the joy.

I feel it is a blessing, a duty, an honor, that we give the love that we have, and we share the lives that we have with our fullest heart.

If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.

'Notorious' is a masterwork. I can watch it every day.

There are a lot of women who feel that they have done all the work in their relationship only for someone else to step in and take the love and credit for it.

My dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine,' but it's really, really true.

Impose yourself on the world, don’t let the world impose itself on you.

How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked.“Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.

Bear no malice for the ones who leave you.

At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do.

From a little boat, to a big boat, to a helicopter, to an airplane.

I think that, you know, Russia is full of themselves. They've always been full of themselves. But that's - it's more of a facade that they try and show as opposed to anything else.

As in, I think 'Badlands' is one of the funniest films of all time: "Every day I wish I was carried off to a magical land, but that never happened" is one of the funniest lines in any film.

Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.