New York has a great energy, but London is better.

Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD, so I need some kind of focus or I go a bit extreme. I need work to keep me sensible.

I think the best thing your parents can do for you is to let you be yourself.

Dad always told me that if you're going to work on something, it might as well be something you're proud of.

You have to give to be able to receive.

Although I've watched myself making the transition from being a girl to being a woman, I still feel 15 years old. My reflection disagrees.

I put myself under immense pressure.

I tend to write more when I travel.

As an actress, you have to keep yourself fresh and new.

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

I was 18 when I got my first acting job.

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My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.

There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for forgiveness, nothing more.

You must distinguish between what is urgent and what is important. You could accomplish all of the urgent things that you desire without accomplishing anything that is important.

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

I don't use the term 'miracle' lightly. I don't believe in God, or reincarnation, or destiny, or the Publishers' Clearinghouse Sweepstakes.

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what you like but in liking what you have to do.

You can't lose. Go, go, go!

A beggar always remains a beggar. Africa, stop begging - you have what it takes to solve your problem.