“I’m a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.”

I can be 100 years old but I will always be proud to say I was in Harry Potter.

I’ve always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can’t do it any other way.

Men, I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender equality is your issue too.

If not me, who? If not now, when?

Sex & World Peace shows us how gender inequality is a form of violence that impacts everything from population growth to economies to regime type.

Violence against women and girls is one of the most serious human rights issues.

It’s important to read because it’s really good for your vocabulary.

Who here actually thinks I would do 50 Shades of Grey as a movie? Like really. For real. In real life.

I’m the worst liar ever.

Books are a friend, books are an escape, books are a means to empowerment and books are a means to understanding yourself better and in a world around you. They are everything.

Gender equality can only become a reality if we harness the transformative power of solidarity across professions and across borders.

I hope that having my life and having an education will lengthen my career.

Being passionate is not what makes you a girl, it’s what makes you a human.

I truly, truly believe that beauty is something that comes from within.

Really I was open-minded about doing anything, but the one thing I didn’t want to do was get myself into a corset, because I was worried I’d never get out again.

We really damage our own confidence when we put ourselves down, so I try not to.

Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that is a wellspring of inspiration.

We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that’s what you seem to have mastered. You’ve used silence to great advantage in the film. It’s brilliant.

The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.

Those who are blessed with the most talent don’t necessarily outperform everyone else. It’s the people with follow-through who excel.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.