I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

When you grow up, your heart dies.

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

The fact is, I can have any experience of life I want. I don't have to choose any one thing or act in any one way to define myself as a woman now. I am one.

But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to.

It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'connections.' I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work.

I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

Everybody likes to gossip. But it can be a little scary to have people knowing secrets about me when I don't know anything about them. It's not exactly a two-way street there.

I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us, as it should.

Everything that happens is always for goodAnd that happened to me is for very good

What had she have to wish for? Nothing but to grow more worthy of him whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own.

I hate it!" Charles Wallace cried passionately. "I hate the Dark Thing!

Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family.

Every action begins with a thought, and if you don't watch what you're thinking, your thoughts will get the best of you.

There are two forms of justice. There is what is called retributive justice and there is restorative justice.

I don't return fruit. Fruit's a gamble. I know that going in.

Markets will always move ahead of the news.

The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government.