I try to do yoga when I can to make sure that I'm flexible and that I'm not going to tear any muscle or pull anything.

Never be ashamed of what or how you feel... just be honest.

I will never be a waif. I want to market myself as a healthy-looking woman who is an action-star kind of girl.

There was one time I wrestled two boys and I beat them both! They weighed a lot less than I did and I think they didn't want to hurt a girl, so I don't know if I really won - I'd like to think I did.

I was cast in 'Thor' back in 2009, so it sort of took me out of the running for anything tied to DC Comics.

I actually read “Wonder Woman,” and here’s the thing about her: she’s more of a physical presence than anything else. You don’t get to really know her on the inside.

I think that when people look at me, and they look at my height and my voice and my coloring, they automatically think, "Tough."

I'm blessed with very fast memorization skills, so I don't have to read it too far in advance.

I'm a very physical person. I hug people, more so than shake hands.

I got into the business all by chance. I really enjoy what I do now, but it wasn't always a huge dream of mine. I think I always had thought about it growing up, though.

If I find the right character, I don't care if it's a film, a television show or a play, I'm gonna do it. Everybody crosses over and it's just one big pool of stuff now.

Never forget to be someone even when you get lost in the wildness of a crowd.

If you are wasting time, wasting money ....

I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.

The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.

In Ireland, there are the same fossils, the same shells and the same sea bodies, as appear in America, and some of them are found in no other part of Europe.

Nobody in the city of Los Angeles knows how to catch an alligator, ... We have no experience in recreation and parks, the zoo or animal control.

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

If we want to work out a policy for the present, we must examine the past and prepare for the future, discard the material and elevate the spirit, rely on the individual and exclude the mass.

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.

When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand.