When you really have the preparation time and things start taking the shape that they need, you have a beautiful feeling that comes from the hard work.

My ambition is to be happy.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

My definition of beauty is without rules. It can be the face of a beautiful 90-year-old woman that is full of stories and emotion. Beauty is what somebody's eyes communicate.

All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.

We need to stop the dying and start the living; stop the hunger and start the hoping.

I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sentences: "How are you?" and "I want to work with Johnny Depp."

I think magic is very related to happiness. So it is not there all the time, but there are beautiful moments of magic in everyone's life.

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.

Every relationship ends, until maybe you find one that lasts forever.

When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive-- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love

Random makes you smart, random music makes your smart. So keep in touch with random, because random is your friend!

Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans.

I don't remember sitting down and saying, 'This is why I want to be--an actress.' I just knew. It was never a conscious decision or a revelation.

The New Testament, and to a very large extent the Old, is the soul of man. You cannot criticize it. It criticizes you.

I have never given all of myself, even vocally, to anyone. I was taught to sing on your interest, not your capital.

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.

I play for the United States of America!

You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting.

I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it.