"If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?"

"Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great."

"I only answer to two people, myself and God."

"I'm insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like."

"Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right."

"In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete."

"I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'."

"Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not."

"I can trust my friends These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow."

"I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel."

"Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes."

"You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again."

"I'm still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands."

"I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia."

"I would have gone home to my mother, but I'm not that crazy about my mother."

"Women are the real architects of society."

"A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones."

"I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me."

"Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner."

"To me marriage is for five or ten years."

"I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy."

"The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him."

"Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable."

"Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended."

"It's not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It's not the end-all, be-all of my life."

"I kill myself for my body."

"Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle."

"I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze and kiss. But I don't fold up and die if I don't have a man around."

"Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date."

"If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen."

"Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries."