My first job was baby-sitting. I had a great time because I love kids. Sometimes, when I'm having a bad day, I'm like: "Oh, you know what? I'm going to chuck it in and become a kindergarten teacher!"

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.

It was sweet and lovely, that smile, perhaps the more so because it wasn’t complicated by much in the way of thought.

It does not matter how strong you are. You are to be my wife, and I will not have the woman I love put herself at risk. Ever.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

Some men do think I'm a psycho bunny-boiler.

It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.

There's a moment when all you are is all you are.

Islamic law is clearly against terrorism, against any kind of deliberate killing of civilians or similar 'collateral damage.'

Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

Barack Obama's strategy is to get away from anything having to do with race as quickly as he can. His fear is that that might open a Pandora's Box.