Only the individual can decide what level of risk she can tolerate and what level of freedom she's willing to sacrifice for the sake of safety.

With rare exceptions, people are responsible for what they do.

I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful.

I like to have success experiences rather than failure experiences. So I'm more likely to compete in things I'm good at, and more likely to spend time on the things I expect to succeed at.

Consider surgeons and their work. It's unthinkable to put your hands in the warm blood of another human's gut. Even with rubber gloves on. Who'd want to do that? But surgeons get over it.

Celebrity stalkers also are not necessarily fixated on one person as the public thinks. Rather, they tend to switch targets, going from, say, an athlete to an actor to a politician.

It takes courage to stand up for yourself. I stand in honor, and no longer in fear of speaking out.

If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well

An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.

I'm a very cerebral person and I like to do my homework and break it down. I like to feel like I did my due diligence. It's a confidence factor for me, as an actor.

the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.

if we cultivate compassion for those who have hurt us, we have the possibility of overcoming our anger,pain, and fear. compassion is a great medicine.

I thought about the nice clothes that I always wore. Well of course I did. I took pride in being the best dressed monster in Dade County.

Words of affection, howsoe'er expressed, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.

I have too much imagination to be a housewife

. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.