You have Cameron Crowe write an incredible monologue for you just based on the things that you're talking about. It just became this opportunity that was too exciting a process to pass up.

I'm just a big believer in 'you must love yourself before you can love anybody else,' and I think for me that breeds the most inspired relationships.

When we live our lives everyday, we're met by opportunities, and most of us don't even recognize them.

If you feel glamorous, you definitely look glamorous.

There is nothing strange, creepy, or inappropriate about John Travolta .

I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face.

I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim.

I'm happiest when I have something to focus my energy on.

I'm very comfortable with my sexuality, my body, my face - well, sometimes I'm not comfortable with my face, but it's stuck there and there's nothing I can do about it.

I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape.

It is important to remind young people that peace is the only victory.

She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.

Why are we here? We're here to go!

What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.

Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

It was an honor to coach him. He should be proud of what he did this year.

Never give up and don't ask why because every situation does not need an answer. I'm a firm believer that I don't worry about anything I can't control.

I just think the David O. Selznick story is one of the great, epic stories of Hollywood history that nobody knows. Maybe one of the reasons why nobody knows it is because he wasn't a movie star.

All we have, all we are, are clichés.

The whole search of religion is for that witness: how to find that which is real.

As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her.