The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

Not necessarily in one concert, but they're all there to be used if you want to use them.

What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.

I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna.

I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.

I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

I want to go out there and do the best work I can.

I want to be in this business as long as this business will have me.

The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you.