Whether it was work marriage or family I've always been a late bloomer.

When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.

Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.

Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.

Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to!

Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.

It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.

You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you

It doesn't matter if you're small, big, or fit: if you go in front of the camera and deliver and say, 'Oh my God, I look amazing, ' and just be sure about yourself, everything will be perfect.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

I often play a move I know how to refute.

Within every desire is the mechanics of its fulfillment.

I have indeed - praise be to God - attained my desire in this world, which was to travel through the earth, and i have attained in this respect what no other person has attained to my knowledge.

Ah, well, people can be stupid abou' their pets," said Hagrid wisely.

The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.

If you think there's something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.

Being First Lady is playing supporting act. I am not seeking notoriety and I am not seeking to grab the limelight.