Keep your private life private. Be open to suggestions from different people. And just be nice. I have heard stories about people who are just plain rude to the press or fans.

Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks.

If you're not falling, you're not training hard enough.

I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine's Day stands for because it is about love

Four months filming in a foreign country. You know, it is great because you get to learn all about different cultures. I feel so much more enriched.

The way to my heart is by being truthful and spontaneous.

I chose to wait to get my drivers license. Since I was working and I didn't have time, I got it like a week before my 18th birthday.

Believe in yourself. If you don't believe in yourself, you can't accomplish your goals. Know that you can do anything and anything will happen.

I was always wanting to learn and be one of those actresses who can actually hold a conversation as opposed to standing there looking pretty.

When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger.

I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.

With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline. Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown.

Your responsibility is your accurate response to the ability within you, when you respond less accurately than the ability you have it becomes irresponsibility.

She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.

We are not going to be able to rebuild Afghanistan into a Jeffersonian democracy.

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes.

Assume the worst about people and you get the worst.

Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.

Being president isn't anything like reality TV.

As a father of seven kids, and been a kid myself at one point, I realize you don't always make the best decisions every time out. And life is a learning experience.