Women get scrutinized all the time for the way they look. So if I can learn to deal with that, then I do believe I can learn to deal with people's criticisms of my film choices.

I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man.

I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley.

Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.

I think that you have to restrain yourself from googling your name and have other hobbies and desires and wants. You do a million things. You go to school, you write, you read, you blog.

Always have a backup plan.

My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.

I was really good at saying no. I decided I was just going to say yes to any opportunity that came, no matter how crazy. And it changed my life.

Christian Louboutins are uncomfortable, but I screamed the first time I put on a Pointe Shoe.

I'm still a 'Star Trek' fan. You never stop being one.

I did have a friend, ' I said.'And your friend trespassed upon you, ' the Wally replied.

God rewards those who put Him first and seek to do His will.

There is no such thing as creative and non-creative people, only people who use their creativity and people who don't.

Let's embrace more of life, not less. Balanced people don't change the world, and I'd rather spend my time feeling worn out from meaningful activities and projects.

In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.

Trouble's made us kin.

Across all fields, women are generally paid 21 percent less than men.

By digging into our souls, we often dig up what might better have remained there unnoticed." Alexis Alexandrovich

It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is.

Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.