It was hard to be taken seriously being model-turned-actress. I needed to work on my acting chops. There are so few parts available that are good for women.

If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.

We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.

Sometimes it feels like it hurts when you make a big purchase, so I really believe that the more expensive things should be gems that you keep in your closet, not trends.

Modeling isn't boring.

Women can be strong, be smart, be sexy, be mothers, be wives, and be powerful. We don't need to compromise.

It is in the mind and the heart where we meet. It's not the body-the body will change.

I realized that being present for loved ones who are dying or aging is one of the greatest honors and gifts in my life. We are quite small in the big scheme of things.

Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.

Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!

More than anything, it's my son's smile and love that makes me light up!

Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know.

The body is the outermost layer of the mind.

Superficial efficiency seems cheaper at first, but it costs more the long run, with the cost being pushed off onto someone other than the one who saves a few bucks.

I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the confinement facility).

I am not a quitter. I will fight until I drop. It is just a matter of having some faith in the fact that as long as you are able to draw breath in the universe, you have a chance.

I want to give you the depth and the strength which is yours... the original you.

There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.

As soon as you're interested in what is good taste, then you're in bad taste land already. What's comfortable and what represents your life, what's unique and individual about you, that's style.

I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.