Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD, so I need some kind of focus or I go a bit extreme. I need work to keep me sensible.

I think the best thing your parents can do for you is to let you be yourself.

New York has a great energy, but London is better.

Dad always told me that if you're going to work on something, it might as well be something you're proud of.

You have to give to be able to receive.

Although I've watched myself making the transition from being a girl to being a woman, I still feel 15 years old. My reflection disagrees.

I put myself under immense pressure.

I tend to write more when I travel.

As an actress, you have to keep yourself fresh and new.

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

I was 18 when I got my first acting job.

Life is a war

What you see, say, think, and believe about yourself affects your feelings, decisions, and actions.

Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

Sometimes destiny lies just outside of our reach.

I guess I'm growing up in the film world.

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

Art is an evolution of techniques and materials from past to present and we can't stop learning.

I saw a star slide down the sky Blinding the north as it went by Too buring and too quick to hold Too lovely to be bought or sold Good only to make wishes on And then forever to be gone