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

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.

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.

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

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.

Don't turn your back on your own happiness just to hug your pride.

Today’s problem is that people are quickly falling in love and falling out of it just as quickly.

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.

That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimination.

All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.

There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.

When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all.

We only have one future, and it will be made of our dreams, if we have the courage to challenge convention.

Where God has put a period, the devil puts a question mark, casting doubt.

When we suggest that men are at the top because men discriminate, we miss the point. Men are at the top of the work hierarchy because work has been primarily men's responsibility.