As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.

I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.

I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.

Find out who you are & embrace it. It's so much easier to face criticism when you are comfortable in your own skin.

That's always been my philosophy: I try to just be as straightforward as possible, and then I don't really have to question what I said or regret anything.

I do believe that you don't have to act like a man to be strong. You can still be feminine.

The illusion of perfection is an illusion anyway.

I find that in life all you can do is try to be honest about who you are and how you're feeling, and trust that it will be received in the correct way.

A man who's powerful and strong yet is able to show tenderness and vulnerability, that's really sexy.

I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't mess with me. But as one of seven children, you have to fight for everything anyway.

I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.

Reasonable things would never bring you joy as much as unreasonable ones do.

Every infantryman in the Soviet Army carries with him a small spade. When he is given the order to halt he immediately lies flat and starts to dig a hole in the ground beside him.

When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you.

I've had boyfriends complain, "Wait, you don't want to see me?" No, I don't. I just want to hang out by myself. So screw off.

I've won some pretty cool things in my life and I have a lot of great titles.

I Didn't Drop My Gloves. They Were Pulled Off Me!

Walking is very good for writers. There's something fundamentally useful about not talking to anybody, not looking at a screen, and being in nature - even if that nature is an urban environment.

The attention has to be on the Spirit. And that cannot be there unless and until something happens within.

The Golden Globes are always fun because everyone's drinking.

When I was young, I flirted with the idea of a career in journalism on one hand and politics on the other.