Life is about creating new opportunities, not waiting for them to come to you.

I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.

I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.

Life is about creating new opportunities, not waiting for them to come to you.

If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.

This is not love. It is a crime... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.

Make yourself smell nice. I even wear perfume sometimes when I'm alone.