Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.
I believe ambition is not a dirty word. It's just believing in yourself and your abilities. Imagine this: What would happen if we were all brave enough to be a little bit more ambitious? I think the world would change.
We’re more than just our dresses.
When you finally accept that you're a complete dork, your life gets easier. No sense in trying to be cool.
I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.
One honest voice is louder than a crowd.
There's no bad consequence to loving fully, comma with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.
Doing begets more doing. It sounds simple, but I’m a firm believer that action can solve so many worries, and just powering through, no matter what, can give you the confidence you need when you feel like you’ve got nothing to offer.
Whether it was making my bed or making a movie, my mother and father never hesitated to say how proud they were of me, and that means so very much to a child.
I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.
Never miss an opportunity to just shut up.
It's important to do things that scare you to death!
Confidence is everything in this business.
If something seems frightening or horrible, I should probably do it.
Your body is just a vessel for who you are as a person. And until you work on what you give back to the world, it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside.
If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them.
I'm trying to make it cool to be a good girl.
But like Elle Woods, I do not like to be underestimated.
I thought I knew everything about love and relationships in my 20s, the ignorance of youth is bliss. As you get older, you start to realise that you don't really know anything and life is a great traveling journey. Life is unexpected...you just never know whats going to happen.
Lord knows, everyday is not a success, every year is not a success. You have to celebrate the good.
As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.
I don't think these women are stupid. I think they're selling a personality that's very marketable: Wouldn't it be fun if we were all gorgeous and didn't have a care? But creating a cultural icon out of someone who goes, I'm stupid, isn't it cute? makes me want to throw daggers at them! I want to say to them, My grandma did not fight for what she fought for, and my mother did not fight for what she fought for, so you can start telling women it's fun to be stupid. Saying that to young women, little girls, my daughter? It's not OK.
You can learn a lot about yourself with what youre doing and who youre with on a sunday.
I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.
Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.
