“We want to empower people to take action and make change and translate their passion into really doing something”

As women, we all face our own unique challenges, but we stand together on these steps today as a symbol of our determination and our commitment to progress.

I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way.

Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong.

Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That’s it, that simple.

Feminism is not here to dictate to you.

I’m excited about the aging process. I’m more interested in women who aren’t perfect. They’re more compelling.

If you believe in equality, you’re a feminist. Sorry to tell you.

Harry Potter is not twilight, you know; we’re not selling sex.

Don’t feel stupid if you don’t like what everyone else pretends to love.

Women have a natural tendency to want to nurture and take care of men.

I hope another generation of children don’t have to grow up without understanding the historical context for contemporary racism.⁣

Acting is telling the truth under imaginary circumstances.

We are tapping into what the world wants: to be a part of change.

I really believe that you have to earn things. I don’t feel comfortable unless I have worked really hard.

My friends are all really nice about my fame, they’re just curious really, they ask lots of questions.

Friends capture you best.

We’re now the results of our past actions, and in the future we’ll be the results of the actions we’re performing now.

It’s by your own actions you’re able to get more in a mess or out of one. It’s your own actions that relieve or bind you.

Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.

Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.

Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.

Sometimes there are people who don’t know how to make action movies – and that situation isn’t a good one.

Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.

What I think we need to do is infuse everyday and every action with the kind of values we hope will be in the future, with kindness, with nurturing, with dreams, ambition, using your talents, not resorting to violence, other forms of conflict resolution, with humor, with poetry, with music.