When do I feel my best? When I haven't looked in a mirror for days, and I'm doing things that make me happy.

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.

You don't know where you are or where your dreams end and the world begins.

We have good leadership only by chance, not by management.And we need to change that!

If your environment isn't bringing out the best in you, then it's time to reposition yourself in a circle of ambitious enlightening minds.

Why am I doing this? Because it feels so good to talk like we used to, even though I know this is just a shadow of what we had. But I chase it anyway.

I work out like a maniac and I spray tan a lot. Genetics were kind, but I work very hard.

Usually the things you dislike in a person are his defenses against fear.

Im in my mid-30s, Ive won an Oscar, I have four children. You figure out if my deafness has adversely affected my life.

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.

In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.