To your point earlier if a female movie does well they're like "Oohhhh! I can't believe it did well! Maybe the next one will do well, too."

I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man.

I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley.

Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.

I think that you have to restrain yourself from googling your name and have other hobbies and desires and wants. You do a million things. You go to school, you write, you read, you blog.

Always have a backup plan.

My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.

I was really good at saying no. I decided I was just going to say yes to any opportunity that came, no matter how crazy. And it changed my life.

Christian Louboutins are uncomfortable, but I screamed the first time I put on a Pointe Shoe.

I'm still a 'Star Trek' fan. You never stop being one.

Don't be sad that it's over.Be glad that you ever lived to see it.

Meditation is not a religion but a scientific way to enhance the concentration power of the mind.

Blood rushed to the regions of my body that I associated with naughtiness, and I was powerless to stop it.

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions

All of my career has been an attempt to educate myself and get paid for it.

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.

I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio.

Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.