My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions.

IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS.

There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.

Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong... It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideals.

Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women's movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it's affecting men hasn't really been addressed.

My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder.

Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!

I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls.

I don't have makeup on all the time, but when I want, I have fun with my friends choosing clothes and putting nail polish on.

Feeling beautiful has nothing to do with what you look like. I promise.

All I can do is follow my instincts, because I'll never please everyone.

That's one huge puppy.

Finding beauty in the common is the sign of a gifted mind.

Morgan Freeman is a very giving actor.

I don't want to have so much humor [in films] that it undermines the jeopardy, but enough to sometime relieve tension.

When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet.

If we get too caught up in the rhetoric of meditation, we will miss the point. The point was to go beyond rhetoric.

A man who has been an animal has infinitely more knowledge of that animal than a man who has merely dissected one.

Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour.

Most people can accept the truth only in the form of a lie.

. . . Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own.