"My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain."

"The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings."

"I think sometimes people can get lost in the bigger special effects, science fiction, robot stuff, and those are cool and fun to watch, too, but I think it's so important to sometimes step back and watch something that's about life and human interaction."

"My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know."

"I think I was a Japanese schoolgirl in another life. That's how much I love Hello Kitty."

"One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life."

"That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me."

"I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds."

"I played the young Reese Witherspoon in 'Sweet Home Alabama' when I was 7, and the boy who played the young Josh Lucas was 10."

"I go for my completely routine mammogram and then I get a call from my gynecologist. And she says, 'Well, I have some - it's not such great news, but here it is, but it's very small and we're just going to get in there and take it right out, right away, and then you'll probably have radiation.'"

"My private life is private. But at the same time, I have nothing to hide. So what I will say is that I am very happy."

"My private life is private."

"What I do for exercise sort of depends on what's happening in the rest of my life."

"I always sort of thought, 'I'm probably going to get breast cancer. There's a really good chance.'"

"It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead."

"I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men"

"Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne"

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."

"Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more."

"Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."

"Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works."

"This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say."

"Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life."

"The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general."