We as women need to empower each other.

My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.'

No matter what you look like or think you look like, you're special and loved and perfect just the way you are.

There's a confidence you find when you finally feel right in your body.

I'm pretty smart with boys. I know how to handle them and I know what to do around them.

All I've ever wanted is to be normal.

I have two lovely parents who support everything I do, two siblings, and three beautiful nieces. My house is always filled with laughter and fun!

Young women grow up in a really negative world today online and in person.

I've always done pretty well in auditions. I just go in and give it my best shot.

I want to continue to speak out on issues that matter to me. I want to have even more of a voice.

It was an instant weight lifted off my chest - both literally and figuratively.

Formal education and current position can define your worthiness. What makes you extraordinary is defined by your attitude towards others.

Unless you realize that there is a sun beyond comprehension of this limited mind... the life shall remain confined within a Box...

Understand that everybody has their own struggles, regardless of whether you can see it or not. Just surround yourself with the people who love you, and know you're not really alone.

It was unbelievable seeing me as an action figure! In a few months, toddlers all around the country will be biting my head off!

The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.

There is no democracy in Russia. Dictators do not go away through the vote. Putin relies on riot police, thousands of them, with heavy equipment, fighting Russian youngsters from opposition.

It has never ever been a bad thing in Hollywood to be sleeping with a director who's just won an Oscar or the hot new movie star whose face is on the cover of 'Time' magazine.

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Don't worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live.