- "I know certain actors are totally screwed up on drugs, yet it gets covered up. Why wasn't I excused for 'exhaustion' or 'the flu'?"
- "I believe you can be the person that you dream of being."
- "There's nothing like the power of a smile."
- "I love levity. As crazy as I am, I just love to laugh."
- "I don't want to sit around and hope good things happen. I want to make them happen."
- "My parents are not bad people. It was just a case of them not wanting a child."
- "I believe in fate. I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it's important to seek out that reason - that's how you learn."
- "There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk."
- "My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the world."
- "You have to fight unhappiness like a dragon with fire and breathe."
- "I try to make movies that I would want to go see rather than ones I would just want to do as an actor. I want people to have movies full of romance and hope and empowerment, something they can escape into and feel good about. I love happy endings."
- "Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."
- " I'd rather be a few pounds heavier and enjoy life than be worried all the time."
- "If I ever start talking to you about my 'craft', my 'instrument', you have permission to shoot me."
- "I did karaoke once - a Pat Benatar song - and my friends looked at me with disgust."
- "I just think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness. If somebody walks in the room and they're drop-dead gorgeous and sexy, it's really fun to look at. But if someone is giving of their spirit and they make you laugh and feel good, that's a whole other level of beauty."
- "As much light as I have inside me, there's just as much darkness, I'm afraid. There's a polarity, and I still have demons to work out."
- "When I lay my head on the pillow at night, I can say "I was a decent person today". That's when I feel beautiful."
- "I'm getting older so those dark circles are really starting to show. Now, I'm starting to look like Night of the Living Dead."
- "I love women who have fought to the change the world and made a difference. I want to be one of them myself"."
- "Every morning I stay in bed for ten minutes to ponder my place in the universe. Then I wash my face and check my karma."
- I know certain actors are totally screwed up on drugs, yet it gets covered up. Why wasn't I excused for 'exhaustion' or 'the flu'?
- There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
- If I ever start talking to you about my 'craft', my 'instrument', you have permission to shoot me.
- I believe in fate. I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it's important to seek out that reason - that's how you learn.
- I believe you can be the person that you dream of being.
- [On her favorite movies to make]: I try to make movies that I would want to go see rather than ones I would just want to do as an actor. I want people to have movies full of romance and hope and empowerment, something they can escape into and feel good about. I love happy endings.
- [On her morning routine]: Every morning I stay in bed for ten minutes to ponder my place in the universe. Then I wash my face and check my karma.
- Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.
- I love levity. As crazy as I am, I just love to laugh!
- I'm getting older so those dark circles are really starting to show. Now, I'm starting to look like Night of the Living Dead.
- When I lay my head on the pillow at night, I can say "I was a decent person today". That's when I feel beautiful.
- There's nothing like the power of a smile.
- [As quoted in Woman's World (5-24-05 issue]: I'd rather be a few pounds heavier and enjoy life than be worried all the time.
- I don't want to sit around and hope good things happen. I want to make them happen.
- [Quoted in Woman's Day, 11-1-05]: My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the world.
- My parents are not bad people. It was just a case of them not wanting a child.
- You have to fight unhappiness like a dragon with fire and breathe.
- As much light as I have inside me, there's just as much darkness, I'm afraid. There's a polarity, and I still have demons to work out.
- "I love women who have fought to the change the world and made a difference. I want to be one of them myself".
- I just think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness. If somebody walks in the room and they're drop-dead gorgeous and sexy, it's really fun to look at. But if someone is giving of their spirit and they make you laugh and feel good, that's a whole other level of beauty.
- [on her attraction to Christian Bale] He's so cute! And I knew him when he was a kid. He was in Empire of the Sun (1987). If he walked into the room now, I would totally clam up. Or I might go overboard and embarrass myself.
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