“There is no pain worse than not achieving a dream when it is your fault. If God did not want you to have it, that is one thing. But if you do not get what you desire because you are lazy, there is no pain worse than that.”

Blessed to have my work feel like play.

My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I’m still a virgin in a lot of ways. I’m not used to being shot down for no reason.

Tokyo by night? Beautiful. Tokyo by Night Sight? Insane!

Love will have you making all sorts of stuff.

Don’t let failure go to your heart, and don’t let success go to your head.

Haters are the people who will broadcast your failures and whisper your success.

Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people – the ones who really belong in your life – will come to you. And Stay.

As I look at our world Today, I am deeply impelled to Action. The “call” has spoken to me and I will humbly, gratefully and aggressively respond.⁣

Somewhere along the way I started saying Happy Birthday to everyone else.

Life is lived on the edge.

I’d rather live my life knowing that I’m not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.

I want to take care of people. I want to help people. The maximum joy that I have is when I can create something that makes someone else’s life lighter, brighter, or better.

This piece is neither an endorsement nor an indictment of any leader, it’s just an open question!

You can spend a lot of time placing blame on others when you’re the only one standing in your way.

If you’re absent during my struggle, don’t expect to be present during my success.

Tease others the way you want to be teased!

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

I’m not in the Lifetime Achievement area yet-I’m still battling it out in the trenches.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.

I never thought of becoming an actress, but I always dreamt of winning a beauty pageant, and I achieved that.

In order for me to achieve… I had to regard myself greater than what I was. In other words I had to fake it until I make it.

The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present.

Physical fitness is extremely important to me. Only if you are fit will you be able to achieve whatever you want to achieve in life; you will be able to pursue your dreams, your ambition, you goals, and the things you love.