The illusion of perfection is an illusion anyway.

I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.

I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.

Find out who you are & embrace it. It's so much easier to face criticism when you are comfortable in your own skin.

That's always been my philosophy: I try to just be as straightforward as possible, and then I don't really have to question what I said or regret anything.

I do believe that you don't have to act like a man to be strong. You can still be feminine.

I find that in life all you can do is try to be honest about who you are and how you're feeling, and trust that it will be received in the correct way.

As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.

A man who's powerful and strong yet is able to show tenderness and vulnerability, that's really sexy.

I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't mess with me. But as one of seven children, you have to fight for everything anyway.

I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.

We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it.

A new dress doesn’t get you anywhere. It's the life you’re living in the dress.

Don't be ungrateful. Just open it.

When I was young, it was sort of built to intimidate. Even on this very local level in this very small church in this small town, it still held that sort of - held you in the palm of its darkness.

To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.

Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.

I wish we had more [Dwight] Eisenhower Republicans in this [Donald]Trump cabinet.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

He who knows enough is enough will always have enough.

All true stories end in death.