I've always really loved action films, but I don't see myself as a superhero girl.

I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.

I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.

Find out who you are & embrace it. It's so much easier to face criticism when you are comfortable in your own skin.

That's always been my philosophy: I try to just be as straightforward as possible, and then I don't really have to question what I said or regret anything.

I do believe that you don't have to act like a man to be strong. You can still be feminine.

The illusion of perfection is an illusion anyway.

I find that in life all you can do is try to be honest about who you are and how you're feeling, and trust that it will be received in the correct way.

As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.

A man who's powerful and strong yet is able to show tenderness and vulnerability, that's really sexy.

I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't mess with me. But as one of seven children, you have to fight for everything anyway.

When people keep TALKING about you, don't waste time listening to what they say, keep WORKING on what you dream about.

Just calm down and think, sir. Think. Where is your wife?

A worthy legacy is the irrevocable consequence of dreaming.

Basically, I didnt know anything about fashion. I was very nerdy; I went to Bryn Mawr and never even noticed models when I was 21.

Even if it makes others comfortable, I will LOVE who I am

To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.

War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.

I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing.

In fashion as in life, the right thing at the right time is the right thing. The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.