You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.
Whatever you are made of, be the best of that.
I live my life with love. I live my life with compassion. I live my life hoping the best for absolutely everyone, no matter how they feel about me. And when you live that way, it's amazing how beautiful every day can be.
A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.
But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.
Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.
Life for me these days is a lot about letting the unknown be wonderful.
There are people who've said that I'm being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoption... With all due respect, I humbly dissent. I am not being brave, I'm a decent human being... Love is a human experience, not a political statement
A bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience.
I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool.
The best part about working is that you never know what you're going to learn when you start out.
Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.
I think relationships are work, but love is a gift.
I don't take anything for granted. I've been given extraordinary opportunities, I've also fought for extraordinary opportunities. So I don't believe you're ever just there in this golden moment. You probably always have to remind people that you're there, that you have something to offer, maybe something beyond what they could imagine for you.
I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don't find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.
Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility.
I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.
I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.
I had a dream. And it came true.
I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.
Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.
When do I feel my best? When I haven't looked in a mirror for days, and I'm doing things that make me happy.
If you’re not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it’s hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that’s really not an ingredient for a happy life.
My mom (Kate McCauley) is an actress, so I guess she's the one that taught me it was a possibility. For as long as I can remember, I've always played make-believe ... It's something that I've always done, that I've always been comfortable doing.
I kind of got my big break with 'The Princess Diaries' and during the press rounds for that everyone asked me: 'Did you always want to be a princess growing up?' And the truth was, no I wanted to be Catwoman.