I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

We all have done something unethical.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

It is important to remember yourself.

Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.

Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

As you think, so shall you become.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

When I’m a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It’s somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

I like to let things breathe.

Beware the hobby that eats.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

I don’t really get nervous that much, or if I do, only I know. It’s all inside me. I am good at hiding everything.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

It’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

Don’t judge. I used to buy underwear because I didn’t do my laundry.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

I owe my solitude to other people.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

I don’t even know how to speak up for myself, because I don’t really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice. And if you’re always the new kid, you never get a chance to adapt, so your confidence is just zilch.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

I was a thug.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

I don’t think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I’m enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

Never take anything for granted.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

Honestly, I’ve been thinking lately about how boring I am. When I do get time to myself, I watch TV.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

I think I have always had a little humor.

I like to feel blonde all over.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.

Training and resting takes up most of my time.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.