Be brave, be bold, be free.

Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity.

It may sound cliché, but when you feel beautiful and strong on the inside, it shows on the outside.

People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.

I don't see the point of doing an interview unless you're going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I'm extremely human and have done some dark things I don't think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I'd like to think it's the nice thing to do.

Our family may seem extraordinary in some magazines or something, but at home it's not. We're really just a very loving family. We're very close, and we don't read magazines. We just kind of go to work and come home. We try to keep a sense of reality into their lives. What's truly real, not Hollywood real.

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.