I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.

A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face.

Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.

I was putting so much time and energy into just my work, but I was raised [to believe] that family comes first.

Guys are kind of retarded until they're about 30.

I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.

I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.

I'm the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fell.

I like going on location for films.

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

The world is still very bigoted.

You need to discover how to invest your life

There's a smile on my face for the whole human race.

And write about it, Goddess, and about it!

The highest achievers in the world have all succeeded because they mapped out their visions

When you educate a woman, you create a nation.

In being meaning, you naturally find meaning in everything.

Phenomenology is dialectic in ear-mode - a massive and decentralized quest for roots, for ground.

Armani is a fashion house that I think is iconic and beautiful.

The trap does not work until all the parts were there. The system itself doesn't work until you fit all of them together.

The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.