Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.

I was trying to find a reason for having had to escape from the place that was my home. To convince myself of my choices, I had to make it a place that everyone should want to escape from.

I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay.

I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

Most important, in order to find real happiness, you must learn to love yourself for the totality of who you are and not just what you look like.

The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford.