After Princess Diaries, I was labeled a good girl, and for the first eight years of my career I had to fight to get any other kind of role. But I like fighting for a job, actually. Once you get it, you feel like you've emerged victorious from the scrap and you're like, "OK, this one's mine. Did it. Done."

I will help the good fight continue until that long awaited moment arrives, when our rights are equal and when the political limits on love have been smashed.

You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8.

There's no magic bullet; there's no pill that you take that makes everything great and makes you happy all the time. I'm letting go of those expectations, and that's opening me up to moments of transcendent bliss. But I still feel the stress over 'Am I thin enough? Am I too thin? Is my body the right shape?'

Everything that I have ever hoped to accomplish, she has done and done better than anyone I have ever seen.

Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.

Scents as well as clothes and hairstyles can go a long way in revealing a part of yourself