Taking a year off and going to school was the best thing I could have done after 'The Princess Diaries.' It taught me that I don't need Hollywood or a job to make me happy.

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.

The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well.

The fantasized kiss was stolen time from the dreams…

When the journey's over/There'll be time enough to sleep.

I feel like the gods have certainly patted me on the head.

War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula

The most interesting place by far was Afghanistan. Just because it is a place that I cannot see myself living. The hardness of the people and the history of the country is just so completely intense.

For me, speaking to anyone - on a stage, in an elevator - I am looking for impact and connection. The same goes for writing.

Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest...even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner.

It is possible to care too much. It is possible to believe that you will never be as good as anyone else. And it is possible to let these things take over.

We have persistent objects, they're called files.