We are so used to not having kids around [on Twilight] that we had to really make an effort to try and edit our language.

In California, I do like to just chill out and go to the beach, but I love the energy here. I feel very productive when I'm in New York.

When it comes to fashion, I love skinny jeans, a simple top, and a great handbag.

I'm very much a girl that likes to have options. That's the way I am with fashion, and that's the way I am with my life.

I am certainly not perfect. I don't think you should try to be perfect for anyone. When you come to terms with that, then you're OK.

When girls come up and say, "You're my role model," it's really flattering, but it's also really scary because I'm not perfect and I'm going to make mistakes.

I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane.

I live a dual life. On the red carpet, it's complete glam. But at home, I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. Simple can be beautiful.

But I don't do the diet thing anymore. I'm a big believer in feeding your body what it needs. Deny yourself something and you're going to end up shoving your face full of it.

Don't throw petals on the floor if they have no meaning. I would rather have a fun, casual relationship than have someone pretending they're completely in love with me.

I think it's better that life is kind of like a mystery, I think that's what drives us.

Of course, freedom is not free. Taxpayers pay for it.

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!

I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.

So actually, there could be parents-of-the-parents-of-the-parents-of-the parents?

Hayek is amongst the top 2-3 of the all the people who ever influenced me.

A couple who go on living together merely because that was how they began, without any other reason: was that what we were turning into?

I do so many roles, I can't be typecast.