Life for me these days is a lot about letting the unknown be wonderful.

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.

A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On termsLike these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.

The difference between being mediocre and achieving excellence is you.

The future does not belong to men.

.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.

The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work.

Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain

The thing I miss about performing is being with people.

Everything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano.