My outlook on life is to be true. To take risks. To love the shadows as well as the light. To find your task. To recognise your task. To be active.

I won't do something just for the sake of working.

What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.

Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.

The strong is not the one who can put on the blades at a glance, and the one who is able to raise a smile from his knees!

Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.

What makes a person sexy is when he's not trying to be sexy.

I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

When you really put your heart in the work, you don't think of how you look. And I think that's the beauty of it.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.

Drinking the mystery punch that will always get her

Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position.

If they gave a Nobel Peace Prize for work against big tobacco, not just in the industry, but also with the California tax initiative, he really deserves one.

You cannot know the meaning of your life until you are connected to the power that created you.

And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!

When you grow up in a place (whether as a child or an adult) you squeeze everything out of it. You need so much when you're young.