The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.

"I never think about how other people will respond to the way I dress."

"I think if you're going to get a tattoo, it should be significant, especially when it's all the way up your arms and your body."

"You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place."

"I think in high school there's so many cliques. You're never safe."

"I feel like all I've done lately is play really sexually-charged drug addicts. I don't know what's wrong with me. I've gotta go to Disneyland more and get more excitement."

"Election made me more aware, more conscious, more sensitive. Not just of sexism but of discrimination in all areas - class, gender, race. I had realized that there were problems ."

"I have a big family and no one ever treated me like a child. They always treated me like an adult, like an equal."

"I think certain people are the way they are for certain reasons that we can't necessarily judge without knowing."

"I look at anything in life like as long as you do what you believe in, then it's going to work out. Because even if other people don't like what you're doing, you're happy because you did what you believed in."

"If i'm not with somebody who really excites or inspires me, then I'd rather be by myself."

"We're all born feeling perfect until somebody tells us we're not. So there's nothing I can teach my daughter. She already has all of it. The only thing I can do is protect what she already feels."

"Dressing up is all about reflecting how I feel."

"Nobody's going to fight for you as much as you fight for yourself."

"All I can do is share what I'm thinking - and learn from others."

"The most powerful thing is for women not just to be the beneficiaries of the change, but to be agents of it."

"When I'm playing a character, I don't wear perfume."

"If people could walk around in suits of energy, that would be cool. Other than that, I don't think men should wear spandex."

"I never really cook from recipes. But the worst is when something turns out great and I can't figure out how to make it again!"

"I think baking is an incredible thing; cooking in general is an incredible thing."

"Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different."

"I want babies. Lots of babies. Of course!"

"The only time I really go on the Internet is for recipes."

"Martha Stewart's my idol."

"I have a tight-knit Southern family."

"I've never really had a competitive relationship in any work situation."

"My mom and dad always taught acting, so instead of getting me babysitters, they would just bring me to class."

"I'm so used to being within 10 minutes of my family."

"I should hope I dress differently at 25 than I did when I graduated high school. I hope I never stop changing."

"My greatest passion is my personal life."

"I had a premonition when I was nine that I'd marry Leonardo DiCaprio."

"To be around me, you must love food, or I'm the most obnoxious person you've ever met."

"I'm no editor, no artisan, no expert. And certainly no arbiter of what you should buy, wear, or eat."

"My mom taught me this really great beauty tip. She used to put oil or mayonnaise on the bottom half of her hair before she would shower."

"I always want to wear clothes that my children will one day look back on and say, 'Oh, you looked amazing - why didn't you keep that?' Not, 'Oh my God - I can't believe you wore that.'"

"My hair is a safety net for me, so I love to have it down and full and relaxed."

"Often you see people on the red carpet with tight up-dos, but that makes me feel stiff."

"My mom would have different fragrances for different times of the year. They were a part of her identity. I don't remember the specific ones she used, but I remember the bottles."

"Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that."

"I could probably make more money if I did more commercial projects."

"After my first year on 'Gossip Girl,' everybody said, 'You've got to do a big commercial movie, ride this wave.'"

"It is hard that people don't just let you do your job for them and entertain, and then carry on your own life."

"I was raised in a really terrific, close family, and I've never needed to escape anything or to really let myself go by dancing on tables."

"I love to have my hair down; I love to have my hair full... there's something romantic about it."

"I always loved fashion."

"I feel shy when people are fussing on me."

"Actually, I'm happiest in Williams-Sonoma in New York. That's a wonderful cooking store."

"I love being at home and cooking and baking."

"I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them."

"I came from a big family - two brothers and two sisters. So, there were always a ton of boys around and a ton of girls around. So, I grew up comfortable with both sexes."