As soon as I stopped trying to control everything that came out of my mouth and every picture that came out, that's when I became so much happier.

It almost makes the secrets more important, those few things you actually do choose to keep to yourself.

If you are going to make something forever, you should be yourself.

If you respect yourself and you love yourself, that's the only way anybody else is going to.

I always say every single moment that has led me to this moment has made me who I am.

I hear actresses talking about this all the time - this idea that you sit in meetings and the studio says, "Well, you can't do that because the audience won't like that. They won't root for you. It's not sympathetic." I think that we've been served this one dish for so long that we believe that it's all that audiences want, but when we test them or throw something out there that has some truth to it, they seem to always respond.

Things don't happen for no reason.