If you're with someone who enjoys having people play hard to get, maybe that's the way you're supposed to do it then.

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.

Apparently, dancing for him and throwing herself at him weren't enough. Apparently, she had to nearly commit murder to arouse him enough to attack her.

The main benefit of innovation for your organization is not competitive advantage. It is survival.

But nowhere in the file had anyone said, “Oh, and by the way, he runs like a gazelle with an espresso addiction.” At least not in the parts I’d skimmed.

I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I'm kind of grateful I've got this image now. There are no skeletons in my closet. What you see is what you get.

What I'm saying is, when you have weight like that in your life, you have to start looking for the bigger picture or you are gonna sink.

A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it.

I still want to get some empathy from the audience, even though she's pathetic.

Freedom is to be free of attachments, and the main attachment is to the 'I'-self.

Wise men and gods are on the strongest side.

My aesthetic is probably closer to a 15-year-old's than my dad's, but I get his conviction.