“I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it’s up to me.”

I believe you make your day. You make your life.

I always heard criticism is the tax on fame. They were right. And then some.

You are not the car you drive.

When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.

I haven’t known life to be any happier.

I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what’s more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.

Stop being perfect, because obsessing over being perfect stops you from growing.

The greatest thing an actor can experience is discovery. The greatest thing an artist can walk away with is to learn something about themselves and the world and this was one of those.

The last Bollywood movie I watched was 3 Idiots that featured Aamir Khan in it. It was impressive!

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

I could really try new things. That was satanism, it works really well, I made a pact.

Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.

One of the greatest, smartest things I ever did was give my kids Angie as their mom. She is such a great mom. Oh, man, I’m so happy to have her.

Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers.

There’s peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I’m responsible.

I phoned my grandparents and my grandfather said ‘We saw your movie.’ ‘Which one?’ I said. He shouted ‘Betty, what was the name of that movie I didn’t like?

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

You must accept the reality of other people.

You must accept the reality of other people.

My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.