The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.

I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.

I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.

Sometimes evolving doesn't mean transforming; sometimes it just means owning what is there.

Life is about creating new opportunities, not waiting for them to come to you.

Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other.

What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

In with the new, out with the old.’ That’s what we’re told. We have to change, adapt, compromise.

This pool is a triumph of imagination. That's how you win at life, Gin. You have to imagine your way through. Never say something can't be done. There's always a solution, even if it's weird.

Little things affect little minds.

I think glamour all the time. I wake up in the morning and I'm already thinking glamour.

I want to live 50 more years. I'm 33 years old... and I want to live to at least be 80 and see my kids grow up and see my grandkids. That's important to me.

Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes.

No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.'

For I am the size of what I see / not my height's size.

I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do.