If you’re not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it’s hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that’s really not an ingredient for a happy life.

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.

A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

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.

Because the world of this film begins and ends in the imagination of Tim Burton, you're not seeing a movie that's been shot on locations that you've seen a million times. Because this world has no rules, you're seeing so many different and separate brushstrokes and colors and characterizations somehow getting combined through Tim.

I have never been called too pretty for anything. That would be a problem I could get used to.

Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility.