That's how I see myself as an actress. I may not be the best in the world, but I love my craft more than just about anything, and I will give everything I have to it, whatever the cost.

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.

This was a matter of some small group of guerrillas in some distant caves, a primitive, fanatical, and desperate people who didn't have the resources to intimidate the United States.

So now you are a woman. Do you have the least idea of what that means?It means that I am now fit to be wedded and bedded (...) and to bear children for the king.

Any effort made in the present is like an investment in the future.

The stars are filming us for no one.

Let anyone who has zeal for God come with me! Let us fight for our brothers! Let Heaven's will be done!

I would have assumed you understood, despite our vague suggestions otherwise, we do not welcome constructive criticism.

Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.

You nine daughters of Jupiter, sisters of one heart.

It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.

People say you shouldn't eat carbs, but that's crap. I just try to stay away from white ones.