I made a French film called "Merry Christmas" which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

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.

The past is just that.

HOLDING ONTO HOPE MAY MAKE YOU TIRED BUT IF YOU LET GO OF HOPE, THE FALL CAN SPIRITUALLY KILL YOU! HOLD ON

If you tell a person about paradise, It becomes a dream.If you show a person paradise, It becomes a goal!

Thanks to Obamacare, millions of Americans can visit a doctor’s office and see what a print magazine actually looks like.

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, dear spouse [mock platform manner], I have noticed that marriage is usually the death of politeness between a man and a woman.

A home birth is about being able to create exactly what you want, because it's such a violent moment inside of the body that you want everything else to be as beautiful as it can be.

When I write, I strain with every wizened fibre of my weathered frame to analyze every possible angle of any given subject.

What is the difference between God and Bono? God doesn't wander down Grafton Street thinking he's Bono.

Since male and female incarnations are equally necessary for self-knowledge, it is not right to look upon one as being more important than the other.

...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.