I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'

I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.

Family is becoming more and more important to me.

I play a curator, the most American part you can think of. My work is to protect the Declaration of Independence. I work at the National Archives in Washington.

Looking back at it now, I really feel like it was a gift because I don’t know if I have the talent to become a prima ballerina. It’s such a hard job to have. I don’t have any regrets about it.

I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love.

What you wear is such an expression of who you are. That's like someone picking out who I'm going to date!

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.

People always think I’m dainty when they meet me, but I’m really not. I’m very German – we’re not made out of sugar.

I don't believe in marriage. I believe in a commitment that you make in your heart. There's no paper that will make you stay.

Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castles—and they are always surprised when suddenly the castle becomes real, and the iron gate grinds shut.

If you just want to do something because it is a customary new year resolution, then soon enough the year will get a bit older, and the strength of your decision will also begin to wear off.

Give sorrow words

No matter how hard you try, you can’t please everyone”.

They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.

I'd get demolitions experts to rig mother to implode like a skyscraper.

The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.

The human species is forever in a state of change, forever becoming.

Love is a funny thing, isn't it? The presence of it can bring you to save a foe, the absence of it can make you hurt your own flesh.

Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of action.