I'm not a clone, and I'm not a minion.

Work is changing for men as much as it is for women.

Success isn’t something that happens to you; you happen to it.

It's very hard to be great at what you do if you aren't deeply passionate.

I've never had a sense of entitlement. I saw how hard my father worked for his money, and it was always made very clear to me that things wouldn't just be given to me.

Everything about mediocrity kills me.

I set very bold goals. It's how I've always been. I'm definitely somebody who swings for the fences, and I expect very high performance.

People underestimate me, and that's fine. I prefer to go into negotiations being underestimated.

It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times.

I've never lived in a building without my name on it.

If people think they can elicit from me whatever terms they want, they are mistaken.

Isn't that the only way to curate a life? To live among things that make you gasp with delight?

I got given a pair of Christmas socks with penguins on. They know you're obviously not going to wear them. I think they do it just to annoy you, to be honest.

We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.

I go shopping for jeans, and they're playing shitty music in the store, I just leave. I can't be around music that I hate.

Everyone teaches you something. Some teach you what to do, and others teach you what not to do.

Don't be defined by your failures, be refined by them.

With acting, it's like becoming another person. I think that's neat, especially when you totally forget. If you totally forget, which I love to do, that's when it's magic.

I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.

I get to sit at home with the dogs on the sofa, record in a closet in the office, send them off and, if I'm lucky, make a million dollars.