Running had always been off the table for me. It just looks embarrassing when I do it. I viewed it like learning a new language - best to learn it as a child.

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.

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

I never went to film school, so I never had the chance to be rejected.

Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

Don't be too afraid of failure to learn what you need to learn.

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

Nonviolence has come among men and it will live. It is the harbinger of the peace of the world.

I have nothing against women. Some of my best wives were women.

I'm certainly not a trained singer. I'm just kind of following a feeling.

My hardest job is to convince the people of Nebraska that 10-1 is not a losing season.