Obsessing about weight is a big old waste of time.

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

Whatever you are made of, be the best of that.

A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.

Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.

But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

every choice i have ever made after you existedhas been dependent on exactlyhow close i can have you next to meand how long i can get you to stay.

When you're making the record, you're not thinking about an audience, but you still need them and you want them.

I'm not very ambitious at all.

The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.

It is frustrating when in an interview people say: 'Give us your make-up tips' and 'How do you stay skinny?' I think: 'Do you ask a guy that?

I think there's an innocence to me.

it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.

Class is more important than a game.

I will forgive if the players cannot get it right, but not if they do not try hard.

The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism.