My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.

Although I look really good holding a gun, I can't shoot. I can't shoot anything. I'm the worst shot.

Your present challenges or limitations cannot stop you from becoming what God has ordained you to be.

I'm so blessed to have as many jobs that I have, but I do agree that there needs to be some downtime.

I would love to do comedy. I'm actually really animated and goofy. I talk with my hands so intensely.

I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!

I liked film-making, but the most difficult thing was the editing. I found it tormentingly difficult.

I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

You have to be really careful with what you put out on social media and who you're talking to online.

I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well

No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.

I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal

As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.

I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.

It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.

And "classically not beautiful" is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.

What do you want? What do you want your life to be? What do you want your testimony to be? Go for it!

It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.

It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.

Don't try so hard to fit in, and certainly don't try so hard to be different just try hard to be you.

The only way I was going to come back to the Disney Channel was if I was in a position of more power.

See, I will always shop, and that's sort of a problem. Clothes are always exploding out of my closet!

It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.

I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.

It's interesting, because as a musician, I don't feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts.

I think comedy's just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.

I try to be authentic - but at the same time I don't really want people prying into my personal life.

If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.

I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

No matter what we as individual women want, no matter what our goals, we have to support one another.

I like a mannish man: a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman - not just a man with muscles.

Art school can be a wonderful place if you're trying to find your voice and your style and your taste.

I'm a believer in challenging myself and overcoming challenges by doing things I've never done before.

When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxon!

My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'.

I would remind people on the planet that this is the only one we have, and we need to take care of it.

I just like to do covers, every once in a while. If someone pays me to go into the studio, I'll do it.

I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you

I really do believe that anything in life - any obstacle or challenge - can be made better with humor.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

I can't watch iceskating because the whole time I think they're going to fall! I get so uncomfortable.

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

I’m still having trouble convincing Pax that underwear and pants go together – underwear is not pants!

I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time with.

In my profession, I'm around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.

Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.

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