You can tell when someone likes you just because you're in a movie, because all they talk about is the movie, and all they talk about is the movie business.

I think that we, women, are so often defined by who our husbands are and what our husbands do. And it's time for that to end.

I also feel I'm a positive role model by not putting my education on hold.

I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.

It really wasn't my thing. It still isn't my thing, the whole science-fiction action thing. I prefer simpler, character-based movies.

No one can live without friendship, because what would you do all day without friends?

My mom devotes so much of her time toward me. She's an artist, and my father is a doctor. I've been brought up in what you might call a pretty conventional family.

Sometimes just watching a person doing the things they would only do at home lets you know who they really are.

I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.

People who take everything to heart trivia - the most capable of genuinely love.

Cute is when your personality shines through your looks.

I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

Sometimes it's better to forgive and forget. And sometimes, on the other hand, it's better to leave the friendship.

There is a lot lacking on the intellectual side and on the values side when being an actor.

Microcredit is about giving hope.

I couldn't be anorexic because I like food too much, and I couldn't be bulimic because I hate throwing up too much.

I usually run three or four times a week now. Pretty boring, but it's so worth is. It's done wonders for my mood

I always find it a little scary to say that I'm like a character.

Point shoes are torture devices.

If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.

I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature. It's so much easier to understand a character than a theory. You can recognize yourself—or other people—in a different way.

Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.

If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive--that's what's important.

Some relationships aren't true relationships. And it's usually when the other person does something really terrible that you realize it. And that's when it's time to move on.

Part of my reason for being vegetarian was because it practices respect and love for life all through the day, so three times a day, you make a decision to eat things that have not been killed.

Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.

The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way is education and will.

I think the opportunities are all over the place - around your corner or in more exotic locales. But everyone finding their own interest - sometimes it's hard to know what you're interested in, I think.

If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be your friend because you're communicating.

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

You really know a person when you sleep so near to them, or when you eat with them.

Use Starbucks mints for every occasion—they're the strongest

If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener.

I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff.

I think that most women know what happens that leads you to a point where you're not even looking for intimacy anymore. You're just looking for the physical side of it and not the emotional side of it.

No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn't love enough?

I'm pretty immature and get pretty embarrassed easily. I would check out once in a while certain shots to make sure that I felt OK because sometimes once you see it you realize it is fine.

I'm with my friends more than I'm with my parents, but I know more about my parents than I know about my friends. That's something you get out of living with a person.

My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

I was like a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.

Why are they making rules that say my lover can stay in the United States if they're foreign or share my health care benefits because I'm straight - but if you're gay, you can't have that?

I've stood up to producers before, and even a director. I saw them being abusive. A lot of people on the set are scared to say stuff when they're not being treated right.

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best.

The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.

Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now.

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

Your soul doesn't care what you do for a living - and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you are being while you are doing whatever you are doing.

There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing.