That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

California was almost entirely a dream, a dream vague but deep in the minds of a westering people.

Progress is hard, achievements are easy, and giving up is easier still.

...we do not own these woods. They own us.

I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do.

Information is the religion of the modern world.

The reason why [the medical community] is reluctant to talk about it is because there's such a huge business in pharmaceuticals.

Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life.

I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes.

Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.

Well, I would say that Shake It Up was a chance for me to do two things I really love: acting and dancing.