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 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 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.

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.

Troubles teaches us what we must know.

You will never learn to fly unless you jump!

Love has no contingencies, no expectations, no ideals. Love is a gift to thyself, the experience of divinity in full expression.

Every difficult problem is easy if you know how to.

I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage.

When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?

I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.

The great thing about Eminem is, he's just hysterical. You forget, people like Eminem because he is riotously funny. And he's a great actor.

And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of which you have poured your soul.

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.