My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through.

Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

I have work, and then I have a dinner thing. And then I am busy, trying to become who I am.

I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.

Confidence lets you pull anything off, even Tevas with socks.

Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.

The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.

Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

At a brunch potluck, I realize that I do, in fact, hate everybody.

But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.

The power of great thoughts, timeless possibilities.

All sorrows are less with bread.

Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.

People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.

I have a real respect for tobacco as a substance, and it just seems very funny how the Western attitude is, "Wow, people are addicted to this, think of all the money you can make off it."

I don't deliberately go into comedy or go into indies, but I do deliberately try to keep changing tact, because I think that is the key to longevity in a career.

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

All we do our prayers our work our suffering is for Jesus. Our life has no other reason or motivation.

There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.

Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.