“It’s not the absence of fear. It’s overcoming it. Sometimes you’ve got to blast through and have faith.”

For an actor, it is better to play well (or even not so well) in a bad film, than to not play at all.

There’s nothing interesting about looking perfect.

I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I just want to do everything.

I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.

If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by what we are, we can all be freer.

Focused with precision, it can become a powerful source of energy serving progress and change.

The human race is like a bird and it needs both wings to be able to fly.

Don’t let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do or achieve. Do what you want to do and be who you want to be.

The difficulty for me is that I’m interested in so many different things.

I think women are scared of feeling powerful and strong and brave sometimes.

I always keep cards people send me. I have a whole wall covered with them.

Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women’s movement for women.

I’m a multidimensional person and that’s the freedom of fashion: that you’re able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.

Feeling beautiful has nothing to do with what you look like, I promise.

What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.

As a child I grew up with a school curriculum that totally glossed over British colonialism and British slavery.

We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

Goodness is not the absence of disease. It is an intentional process for health.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Don’t mistake your discovery for the absence of yourself.

Her absence was poison to my eyes.

Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.

Peace is not the absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition of benevolence, confidence, justice.

I’d rather miss you in your absence then neglect in your presence.