I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing, and seeing how far I can go.

Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you.

A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she's in the car safely first. Take good care of your woman, and the sky's the limit!

At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.

You could be laughing one day about the same issues that you're crying about the next day, so that's life.

Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free.

I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.

I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.

I like to be scared. I don't like feeling like "Oh, this is going to be a walk in the park". If I ever get to that place, I'll just stop acting.

My first big heartbreak proved to me that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

Apprenticeship is one of the dearest roles of childhood, not just watching Dad or Mother, but being taught a hands-on trade.

Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.

If women ran Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter would have a "Men in Entertainment" issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.

She's as funny as a toothache

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.

Time is what turns kittens into cats.

We have a chance for racial solidarity because all of us, unless you're in the top 1 percent, are really struggling in this economy.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

Lucidity, I maintain, is almost always desirable.