Your happiness is your own responsibility.

Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places.

I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.

I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me.

My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.

I mean, the men in Hollywood event is every day - it's called Hollywood.

I will tell you what I can't abide - and I think the Internet has really created a space for it - women criticizing other women and mothers criticizing other mothers.

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.

The outside world can be very tough.

Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.

When it comes to branding and the ever-changing social media phenomenon, you’re not a mushroom. In other words, you shouldn’t be kept in the dark and fed a pile of...well, you get the idea.

We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears.

Choice is nothing in itself; everything depends on what one is able to choose.

Deep rivers run quiet.

After every storm, if you look hard enough, a rainbow appears.

For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.

Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.

The minute your child is born, your life is changed forever. I think I've become so aware of how important balance is in life.

As for inhibitions, I've spent a lifetime developing them, and I don't intend to lose them.

I like all films whether it's dark or light, love, hate, whatever it is, I enjoy it.