I really can't break away from wearing black and leather!

The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.

I will never censor myself to please anyone.

Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.

I don't believe in fairy tales, but I believe in you and me

I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.

I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.

I don't really know what 'a dark place' means. I have windows in my house, and I'm generally an upbeat person! A lot of people throw that word at me because I wear a lot of black and leather.

Guess what, I'm the opposite of a role model!

The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.

It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!

The human heart is my school.

When a man has learned how to remain alone with his suffering, how to overcome his longing to flee, then he has little left to learn.

To excel the past we must not allow ourselves to lose contact with it on the contrary we must feel it under our feet because we raised ourselves upon it.

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.

It's going to be very difficult. I don't see the president-elect [Donald Trump] as a legitimate president.

Your deliberate Chief Aim in life should be selected with deliberate care

If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.

We're created in God's image, but our souls or spirits are not offshoots of God's own Spirit - as New Age teachers would have us believe.

Everything that I've done was prudent and never has anyone gotten hurt in my films - not a single actor, not a single extra, ever.

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.