As women, you have to negotiate your way through a man's world.

I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.

Were not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, thats just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

At this point of time in history, I don't think that women in any work force that's a male-dominated work force have the same rules to play or live by as men do.

Having the opportunity to play a strong woman is a good one.

I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability. I don't know why. I know I can play these roles, but they're certainly not the only roles I can play.

I'm looking forward to a future where there are roles of greater vulnerability and humor involved.

I knew I wasn't the person to play Ponyboy because I'm a girl, but without knowing it, I understand that was a place I could put all the stuff that I was feeling.

An innovation ecosystem is a systematic innovation methodological environment or a sort of innovation philosophy.

Because we are always growing, life compounds and magnifies what is already in us.

Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

All philanthropy — no age has seen more of it than our own — is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.

The mind is like a lake. It reflects eternity when it's very still. If ripples appear, lots of them, then the reflection is not clear. We lose the clarity of the perfect reflection.

I think the British government's cutting back of arts funding is such a crime. I bet it will happen in Denmark soon, too.

For the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all their lives for the help given to both hearts and souls.

America is still the land of opportunity for most, but it is not a land of opportunity for all. If we are to remain an exceptional nation, we must close this gap in opportunity.

How many people does it take to change a searchlight bulb?