It's harder to live the way I live. There are certain places I like to shop and eat where I simply don't go. The paparazzi follow you.

I've gone both ways. I do as I please. I am too f**king curious to sit here and not try when I can. Men are intriguing. So are chicks.

I had a snowboarding accident. I fell off a horse. I've had a concussion, a fractured rib... I walk into walls. I'm always bruised up.

I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be honest. Without honesty, there's nothing.

My dad has never actually grounded me. He always tells my mom to do it. He tells her, "Miley was so bad today, you need to ground her.

When people say you're going to be so different at 22 or 23, when you're 16, you're like, I'm so not! And then you change drastically.

Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos.

I love telling press the designers I'm wearing, especially if they are emerging. That's exciting to me, supporting talented newcomers.

I'm a smart enough person to know that I don't want everyone to be cookie-cutter versions of the nine guys who wear Converse sneakers.

I don't care what I look like. I must be comfortable. Some of my friends have plastic surgery and Botox, but I'm not interested in it.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens are bullied and ostracized in epidemic proportions. It's disgusting, and it must change.

I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.

My first job was a McDonald's commercial. It made me want to wake up at 4 A.M. to do something I loved. I haven't been the same since.

Education opens the door to everything in terms of having a career and an impact on society and not being a slave to your job, really.

I always find filming stressful. I get very caught up thinking about my character - 'Am I doing it right? Should it be done this way?'

Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.

I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin.

Where is this Hollywood scene, where is it? I'd like to find it one day... If I want to go out and have a good time, I go to New York.

Reminding myself of all that I have to be thankful for really helps ground me and keeps me from tipping over into that negative place.

I think that when people start hanging around each other, they start to pick on on each other's quirks and taste in music, apparently.

Friends always ask me what the best Indian restaurant in L.A. is. I'm like, 'I don't know, dude. I have an app on my iPhone for that.'

People think that I have this wonderful hourglass figure, but I owe that to designer Tadashi Shoji because he cuts for me really well.

Growing up I had a lot of really negative energy in my life from people that were in my life, so I know to how to stand up for myself.

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I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.

I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.

I am only an actress when they say, 'action' and I stop being an actress when they say, 'cut'. I am a normal person outside of acting.

The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.

Maybe I'm being philosophical and spiritual, but I believe that if you put negative energy out there that that is what will come back.

I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.

Normally, learning lines is fairly easy for me, but when you add an accent onto that, it adds a complexity that I had not anticipated.

I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.

I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl.

Increasingly, it's actresses doing the big fashion advertising campaigns, and now there's no distinction between actresses and models.

Mum and Dad sent us to a bilingual school, so we had half the lessons in English and half in French. But I remember being hugely lost.

You can only appreciate freedom when you find yourself in a position to fight for someone else's freedom and not worry about your own.

Louis Armstrong said you have to live a life. And that's right. If you don't live a life, you don't got nothin' to come out your horn.

There's no one out there like Quentin Tarantino. His films have a signature look, and they never just stick to the same kind of story.

I don't know what kind of swag I'd get if I were extra Irish. It would just be, like, extra potatoes. Or like a free pint of Guinness.

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

I'm in love with love and totally believe in marriage, but that's not even on my radar right now. I am not putting energy into dating.

If you take an hour out of your day to meditate, you will progress ten-fold. By staying mentally focused, you can let your worries go.

I finally realized that no one is perfect and that I like the fact that I look different and don't have the perfect body. No one does!

If you don't wake up with something in your stomach every day that makes you think, "I want to make this movie," it'll never get made.

As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in TV I was offered a whole spectrum of parts.

I was a little late in the game for Twitter and Facebook and everything because I thought, 'Oh, I don't know. I just don't have time.'

You'll begin to act when you can forget your technique - when it is so securely inside you that you need not call upon it consciously.

The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage.

If you can just see all the children of the world as your own, all the mothers of the world as you are, we can make a huge difference.

So I think (Obama) definitely has convinced people that he stands for change and for hope, and I can't wait to see what he stands for.

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