It's more fun to play a good character with a good director and good actors around you. That's what makes it fun, and the more variety, the better.

I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.

I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.

Sometimes evolving doesn't mean transforming; sometimes it just means owning what is there.

Life is about creating new opportunities, not waiting for them to come to you.

Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other.

What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

Life brings only so much luck which when used up leaves you without a safety net.

The U.S. needs a strong techno brand like Awakenings, just pretty much pure techno.

Fatherhood is telling your daughter that Michael Jackson loves all his fans, but has special feelings for the ones who eat broccoli.

If rhyme is a crime, my mic is my co-defendant.

Zen is a very fast path to enlightenment, fast in comparison to some other paths, not fast for the person who practices it. There is no sense of speed.

I took the unprecedented step of asking that the State Department make all my work-related emails public for everyone to see.

The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm.

That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.

The whole basis for our relationship with God is rooted and grounded in grace, in that which is not earned.

If God has called you, the more they block your way, the more that trouble and temptation, the more God's love is provoked. Each attempt to stop you asks for more evidence from God.