You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

She always wanted to believe in things.

I was never any good in the school theatrical productions. I always got a role like the March Hare. A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory.

You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work.

I really do love to do things that are nice and simple!

Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.

I'm a woman who likes to be courted - strongly.

Life's too short. If you're passionate - stand up.

Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.

The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth.

I take an active role in my imaging and how I look.