"Comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. Once you compare yourself to someone else, what you're really saying is that what you're made of isn't good enough."

"I think humor is the best gift, and if you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?"

"The whole experience has really stayed with me. Dunsfold pops into my head at the strangest times, and I run the track through in my head. 'I can go faster there and there...'"

"It's cute when you meet young boys and they're bright red and breathing like they've run up the stairs, but they're just sitting outside the door. I've had phone calls in the middle of the night when I stay at hotels."

"Garlicky chicken is the best breakfast in the world."

"Sometimes I enjoy talking, but when it's like people are trying to find something out about me, I don't."

"I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?"

"TM® is helping you tap into something that's already inside of you - that's you in essence."

"I think we have to make our own rules. I don't think we should live our lives in relationships based off of old traditions that don't suit our world any longer."

"It's been nice not having a boyfriend. I could be in a relationship if I wanted to be, but I haven't finished doing what I'm doing. I like boy, a lot. I'm boy crazy. That hasn't changed since I was very young."

"I have gratitude. I know myself better. I feel more capable than ever. And as far as the physicality of it, I feel better at 40 than I did at 25."

"I'm someone who loves to enjoy life and tries to focus on real things and real friendships. That's why I live very simply."

"Convenience is not an acceptable foundational value for society. It’s a disease."

"Everybody has been cheated on, everyone will be cheated on."

"The truth has no temperature."

"I'm not looking for a husband or marriage or not not looking for that stuff. I'm living, not thinking what I should or shouldn't be doing with my life."

"I think people get freaked out about getting married and spending 20 or 30 years sleeping with the same person, but if that's the case, don't do it. Have someone for 5 years and another person for another 5 years."

"I think a lot of people are married to people that they're not romantic with anymore. I just didn't ever marry anybody that I then had to get divorced from. We break up. We move on."

"Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?"

"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves."

"The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back"

"People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?"

"If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance."

"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today."

"Really important goals are accomplished by people who will keep trying even when there seems to be no hope."

"The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger (praise) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies"

"Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date."

"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The “sure thing” boat never gets far from shore."

"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours"

"You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime."

"If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive."

"Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto."

"The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most."

"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare."

"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."

"Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think."

"When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion."

"There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it."

"Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude"

"Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out."

"In the story shoes are just a metaphor for what these girls go through...the grass is always greener and everyone always wants to be in somebody else's shoes; they don't want to be in their own."

"I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress."

"Every casting director I've met is a woman."

"I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it."

"Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are."

"I've never been a fluffy sort of woman."

"It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world."

"You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies."

"I love Shirley Maclaine, love that woman."

"I make films for myself, first and foremost, just because it is such a personal experience, and it's something I really have to want to do and feel connected to."