I love films that make you feel good when you come out and, in my opinion, there's not enough of them these days.

I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.

My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.

Think of anger as a muscle. The way you express anger isn't the way that I do, or you. If you have a good director, you will find that he's getting you to use an entirely different muscle that you never even knew you had - it's real hard and sore, then after a while it becomes normal. And you discover all these new muscles when you enter a new character - that's what a director does for you.

It's better to be interested than interesting.

When food becomes the enemy, every time we lose the fight we not only gain weight, but lose our self-esteem as well.