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Exchange the words 'have to' with 'get to.' Exchange the word 'can't' with 'unwilling.

To make new friends you have be willing to put in the time.

Pilates is the only exercise program that has changed my body and made me feel great

Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.

I too was a little embarrassed by my recent topless 'scandal' and the subsequent parodies.

We are all born worthy. Worthy of love, worthy of success.

I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connection.

If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.

It's not that I'm retired; I just no longer accept acting work.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.

People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair. Hair trauma. It's the universal thing.

You can't live a truthful life without regret.

I've had a little plastic surgery. I've had a little lipo. I've had a little Botox. And you know what? None of it works. None of it.

I recommend it to all people: Get down on the floor and look at the world from where the child looks at it.

I'm one of those people who does a lot of things. I'm lucky. I get up and I have a lot of energy. I have a great work ethic.

I've always put my family first and that's just the way it is.

I'm age-appropriate. I dress age-appropriately, I choose mates age-appropriately. I'm a big believer in people should act their age.

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

I'm going to look the way God intends me to look ... with a little help from Manolo Blahnik.

My mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful.

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.

I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be.

For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good?

I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes.

I don't ever want to make taking pictures into another way of saying 'Here I am'. Because I'm as here as I want to be.

[Comedian Jerry Seinfeld was nominated for a Grammy for his spoken-word children's album] Halloween ... Don't Give Up on Me.

I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.

My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time.

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

The only two questions that need to be asked each day are: Did I live wisely? Did I love well?

I'm a performer. I've just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time.

I barely got out of high school, and I look back at my life often and go, 'Wow, this was awesome!'

I'm a tidy, neat person. But I'm not a maniac.

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.

So, am I friendly with my daughter and her friends? Yes. Am I their friend? No. Does she shut the door? Yes, and I very much support the shut door.

I have a rule: Pretend you're going on a trip for two weeks, and pull what you'd wear on that two-week trip, and get rid of everything else.

I thought, while they're up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice.

All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.

There is a point when you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends.

I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.

I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution.

By the way, food and rent aren't the only things around here that cost money. You sleep on the couch.

It's not unlike the movies for human actors. Once a dog stars in a movie, they don't work very much anymore. It's kind of heartbreaking.

Actually, the books were never a planned career path.

Life is not supposed to be this calcified experience where you don't change.

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

My life is so filled with my children, my family, and the charitable work I do.

Being a parent is a weird juggling act - and nobody does it right. Everybody does it wrong.

Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.

I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal.

I'm never going to be an athlete, never going to be running triathlons - I'm not that person.

The parameters are such that I don't get offered a lot of work. I'm sure most directors hear my list of don'ts and say forget it.

It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.

I've been in showbusiness all my life, but as an actress I have never been overly driven.

We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It is not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life for this child.

Now all of a sudden I'm so less interested in pretending to be a lot of other people, and much more interested in being me.

I've been happily married to Chris for almost 20 years.

I have very short hair. It's the only cute haircut I think I've ever had.

The dog actors and the relationship they have with their trainers is one of the most beautiful things I've ever watched happen in front of me.

I'm not sure what fame is for if it isn't to focus on charitable work.quot;

If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again.

I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers.

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.