“I don’t like to run. I don’t like to jump up and down. Being a big girl and having a bosom, I injure myself! It upsets me, I have to hold my two things. I just can’t jog, there’s something in the way.”

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

I’m a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It’s a pretty dumb animal, mind you.

Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.

It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.

The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.

There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.

Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It’s not a question of clothes or makeup. It’s how she sparkles.

I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way – I just feel good in my skin.

I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.

Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.

A dog is faithful, a woman never.

You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you – and notice it, and be glad for it.

You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

We’re all waiting for the opportunity to do big films but you have to wait your turn – unless you get offered something like Twilight when you’re 20! Otherwise, you just have to keep slogging away.

I hope baseball doesn’t get to the point where everyone’s saying, ‘He takes it [steroids]. He takes it. He takes it!’ because not all of us do. I’ve been big my whole life, and I’ll always be big. That’s all natural.

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it’s a lie already at work.

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

People always – when you rise, whenever you’re getting to a point where you’re a very big band, which is a very rare thing, there are always going to be people that aren’t going to like you.

Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

The big difference that I notice, and this is what all love as New York city and Philadelphia has treated me fantastically, but man, you cannot screw up in Philadelphia and New York.