People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.

Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back since, but I was very appreciative of the experience.

You can never stop discovering music.

I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor.

One should mature over 20 years.

I never do anything out of my comfort zone.

I really don't require a whole lot in life.

Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.

We have too many preacherettes preaching too many sermonettes to too many Christianettes smoking cigarettes.

A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.

Happiness is actually an individual choice, even in the midst of negative circumstances. It's not something our employers can give to us, though they can limit and influence that choice.

We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless.

Political correctness will die as it lived - kicking and screaming ad hominem abuse as a substitute for arguments.