There's an obsessive quality to it that I thought I would've grown out of by now. It's an ongoing source of shame for me.

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.

They finally achieve a sort of outward-facing union.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

The whole mythology of Westeros begins with the struggle between the Children of the Forest and different warring factions before the first men arrive.

When I do a play, it's like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.

When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

We create other people by how we listen to them

God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.

Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter!