My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.
Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life.
No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.
Be positive and work hard. I think it's possible to overcome anything, if you're willing to work at it.
If you do not believe yourself no one else will.
There is nothing I've been through in my life that I regret, or that I would go back and change. I feel like everything that happened - personally and professionally - I went through for a reason, and I learned from those things.
I always believe someone somewhere is working harder than me and that motivates me to work harder, give 100%.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
The most difficult thing in the world is to start a career known only for your looks, and then to try to become a serious actress. No one will take you seriously once you are known as the pretty woman.
I'm not a very good advice-giver.
Nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which we take for granted. . . the decades roll on without even a suggestion that perhaps the whole matter must be rethought