No one can take the shot for you.

Extend your "best before" date by living a youthful life.

Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.

Once you figure out what you want in life—expect nothing less.

When the awareness of what is achievable brushes your life, your journey has begun.

It's sometimes easier to help others rather than helping yourself. The trick is to listen to your "self" as a friend. This may be the simplest change you ever make in life, with the biggest impact.

Upon achieving a lifelong dream, I thought, this is the way to live your life -- in the moment, and to the fullest.

When healthy competition prevails -- you come out to play and you play to win.

Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need in our lives.

The decide word is so powerful. It's amazing what you can do once you decide to do it.

Awareness makes us emotionally brilliant.

You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Old married people look so much alike that they have the same number of hairs in their ears.

Any time you do a movie there are going to be war wounds that you end up getting.

I'm not Josh Brolin or Ryan Gosling. They're more noir than I.

In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music.

My training was based on concentration, and it's impossible to cheat when you are concentrated

For the last year, I had to get out of my bubble.