If you don't have a dream in life, I don't know what you have. You have to want something beyond your reach; it's exciting when it works out.

Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

I don't think we should judge celebrities for doing charity work. Period. Whatever their reasons for doing it, they are shedding light on issues that would otherwise go unnoticed.

Every day we hear about the dangers of cancer, heart disease and AIDS. But how many of us realize that, in much of the world, the act of giving life to a child is still the biggest killer of women of child-bearing age?

I never thought modeling would become my career. I thought it was something I'd do to pay my way through college.

No other health disparity is so stark; virtually every woman who dies giving birth lives in a poor country.

I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.