When you're casting, you get a page or two - just enough to do the scene. Now that you're in the world, you get the whole script.

Never say "never" about anything, because if you do, life has a way of humbling you.

History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.

A lot of times in life, women want to talk, but men don't want to listen, and if they do want to listen, they turn it back to themselves.

Never take anything at face value. Dare to question and seek the truth.

The writers are very good about misdirection and changeups, and that's what's great about it. We always think we know what's going to happen and then they throw a curveball that you don't see coming.

Things don't happen that fast in real life.

Sometimes you meet someone at an inopportune moment and it doesn't work out, but then you see them again five years later and you're in different places and it's a better time.

I respond to women who have their stuff together, who are in charge, who don't need men to do things for them. I want a woman to have her own thing.

I see fans all the time. They're always very complimentary and they're always very eager to talk and to share their experiences or get a selfie. They're really, really loyal. And intense.

I'm embarrassed to say that I don't have a lot of hobbies. It's not because I don't have interests, it's just that I don't have the time.

Rather than recount his life as he has lived it, he must live his life as he will recount it.

I do believe something magical can happen when you read a good book

...alone is such a nebulous state when one is queen.

She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.

Science and technology are a propellant for building a thriving country, and the happiness of the people and the future of the country hinge on their development.

Market forces do not make cities, they destroy them

I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right.

I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.

Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.

Kansas is a piece of real estate that completely disproves the theory of roundness as a quality of the planet earth.