I really don't drink, I don't do drugs. I feel like right now I've been given so many opportunities I don't want to mess it up with those things.

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

Whatever you are made of, be the best of that.

A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.

Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.

But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took.

Aside from producing I want to direct but I'm also going to get back out on the road.

I used to take culinary arts at Job Corps so I'm a certified chef. I could cook chicken alfredo.

There are many families where the whole interest of life is centered upon the dog.

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

What I want you to know is that 'Zero Dark Thirty' is a dramatization, not a realistic portrayal of the facts.

Courage conquers all things.

Don't put your all into someone if they treat you like dirt.

If you don't decide where you're going, life will decide for you.