I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.

I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing.

I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.

I don't think people have seen yet what I can really do. Only appetizers!

I get enough sleep. I take very good care of myself. Growing up as a dancer, you know your body so well, you know what to do to overcome something.

No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?

We're not excusing the ones who are mean, but I want girls to understand the psychology. It's not in everyone. But the bully needs to put this pain somewhere.

I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.

I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.

You have to be a little crazy to be a dancer.

Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it better?

Currently, you are approaching each opportunity with a single possible outcome and when that doesn't happen you fool yourself that there was nothing more that you could have done.

Aren't you getting tired of people hating one another? What do they think they get out of it?

He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.

I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.

Leadership is knowing what to do next, knowing why that's important, and knowing how to bring the appropriate resources to bear on the need at hand.

At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera.

I was a sportsman for years. I've always had a physical background. I've always had an interest in boxing and fighting. To get physical in films is a dream. I love it.

Free enterprise makes people prosperous, all people prosperous, and big government makes people poorer.

The more one emphasizes winning, the less he or she is able to concentrate on what actually causes success.