My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

The rule is you have to dance a little bit in the morning before you leave the house because it changes the way you walk out in the world.

There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color - nothing - no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We're all deserving of love.

We all grow into the beautiful person that we’re supposed to be, some earlier, some later.

I love raw cookie dough, right out of the tube. The other thing I eat is marshmallow fluff.

Chocolate is the greatest gift to women ever created, next to the likes of Paul Newman and Gene Kelly. It's something that should be had on a daily basis.

Your imperfections are what make you beautiful.

Stop being scared of the unknown, because anything I worried about didn't happen. Other stuff happened. The unknown, we can't do anything about.

I'm a true believer in karma. You get what you give, whether it's bad or good.

I've been trying to find the word that says what I need to be in life. 'Brave' is the only word. It's the only thing that I ask myself to be.

The most beautiful woman in the world is the one who protects and supports other women

A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.

Take a chance and risk it all or play it safe and suffer defeat.

The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.

Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.

Religions do not teach doubt.

A lot of country making films in English, but in Japan we are very shy to speak English.

The more concerned we become over the things we can't control, the less we will do with the things we can control

Maybe I'm competitive. I just feel like I have this gift that I've been given. It's like, "Someone unwrap it! Here it is!" That drive can't be held down. I have a lot of ambition.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America.