You feel very much like a puppet, but it had been what I was accustomed to - so you just get on with it and try to find something that rings true.

The business is all about gush and hype. You never have a bad meeting in L.A.

I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. You step out of the car and it's bedlam. Everyone's got crazy eyes.

I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.

When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.

The more we mask ourselves, the freer we're able to be within ourselves.

I love ambiguity. People are that way. People are very hard to work out. No one is just strong or just fragile, or anything like that.

People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.

I've always been quite a spontaneous person, so I would lean more towards, if you feel it and you know its right, then do it.

Things happen in the way they usually should. I'm a pretty fatalistic person.

You attract who you are being. When you work at being the type of person that you want to attract, you attract those kinds of people into your life.

To know the good from the bad, study a man or woman's history of actions, not their record of intentions.

I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Not only are pasta dishes delicious, but they are also great, easy options for a quick dinner during a busy weekday.

On the film sets of 'New Moon' and 'Eclipse,' I feel safe. It's like you're in the center of the hurricane, but outside is where it starts to get chaotic.

To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.

I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them.

Keep salaries low and equity high. Keep the organization as flat as you can.

If thou least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it.