"If you have a sense of yourself, your mission, your belief system, those things will lead you to success."

"When you're female working in a male-dominated industry, there are unfortunately extra things you need to do - for example, couch opinions in a way that sounds palatable and not threatening. That's a skill I developed."

"If you need to be bound to someone, then it's important to be married. If you are independent, then it's important to not be married."

"I would have been long divorced if I got married."

"A woman opening a movie with no other star is like a miracle."

"Directors didn't want to work with me because I was 'too controlling.' If it had been a man, it wouldn't have meant a damn thing."

"Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?"

"Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?"

"I try to stay positive and be very, very active."

"I walk every day, and I run and do all kinds of that."

"I feel there are injustices in the world that I'll stand up for, and I think that it's important to realize that the world is filled with these kinds of issues."

"I had a tremendous amount of gay friends, so my whole life was basically like that... I never noticed who was gay or who was straight."

"A marriage ends up being a business deal: no matter how long or short it is, somebody owes somebody money."

"It's ridiculous to have to base your relationship on money."

"Money can destroy people. It really can."

"It's nice for a woman to go out and have her own money and her own ability to do what she wants."

"You don't meditate once and suddenly your life turns around. What it does is it lets you train your brain to be able to become more stable in an action-oriented way."

"I was always a performer, always on stage, but I also always believed I was going to go home, open a dance school, get married, and have what you would call a 'normal' life."

"A fearful child cannot learn."

"I think journaling is an important, intrinsic experience, and a lot of us don't spend enough time on it."

"We haven't given our brain the ability to actually analyze something clearly and appropriately before we speak and before we take action."

"Listening is huge. Learn to listen. And it's hard: relationships are not easy; most of them don't last. I mean, when you look at what's really going on. So every day is a choice, and sense of freedom is important."

"I've been married twice. It didn't work."

"I never quite fit in - at least, from my own perspective, you know."

"I don't read much, to tell you the truth, about me, you know. I don't read my articles very much or stuff like that, but I have read things upon occasion, and some of it is true, and some of it isn't true, you know. I mean it's just the way it goes, you know."

"Men are different than women, and men live with - with some very difficult obstacles. I mean, a man, basically, in his true nature, is to spread his seed, and a woman is a gatherer, and that's kind of the way we're - our limbic system is set up, you know."

"At 11 years old, I made a very definitive decision, and my decision was that I wanted to be happy. Above and beyond anything I ever did in my life, I wanted to be happy."

"I've worked alongside some very good directors and some not so good."

"I believe that life is about doing."

"If you lose wonder, you've lost everything."

"We can't turn a blind eye to the importance of the well-being of our children, and we need to pay close attention to building the future leaders of tomorrow."

"Central to our work and our goal of finding solutions to global problems is the concept of mindfulness, a technique for focusing attention objectively on the here and now."

"After I did 'Private Benjamin,' suddenly the reputation was that Goldie Hawn calls her own shots."

"'Liberation' is an interesting word because you can be liberated from external things and also from your internal dialogue."

"Don't tell me I can't do that. Watch me. Don't tell me I can't direct this movie. Watch me."

"I don't want to sound like you never feel anything - we've all loved and lost, all had a lot of pain, and we're supposed to. We're humans; it's the way it works. But it's how you manage it, how you manage those tears and that pain. How you are able to get yourself out of it."

"I would like to see a mandate for social and emotional learning absolutely mandated in every state."

"I think that's what makes a successful marriage: a mindful sense of self and the ability to make clear choices to stay together or choices not to."

"I'm not a proponent of staying together and being miserable and damaged and coming through actually a more battered person."

"I didn't really want to be a movie star. I thought they were so screwed up!"

"I'm generally known as a happy person, but years ago, I suffered from panic and anxiety. I've learned to manage the fear and pain."

"If you have a negative thought - 'I can't stand my boss' - it perpetuates a negative worldview. But if you supplant each negative thought with three positive ones, you begin to restructure your brain."

"People talk about the brain weakening as it ages. Mine feels stronger."

"I just love good smells."

"Being a dancer is my metaphor for life because you have to know your body. Being a dancer and paying attention to fitness is all about moving in balance."

"Not every relationship works, and that is the truth, and I don't care whether you're a movie star or just a person on the street, normal life. Everybody's normal, relationships are always normal. I think movie stars have a little bit harder time because the cameras are on there all the time. But you have to be who you are."

"I think that men have tremendous ability to lead. And I think women have a tremendous ability to lead, and they lead differently, and it gives a wonderful perspective to the problems."

"Familiarize yourself with the parts of your brain and their function."

"'Private Benjamin' was the first movie I produced, and I produced it for practical reasons."

"One way to feel good about yourself is to love yourself... to take care of yourself."