“A girl told me my lips looked like somebody had pressed strawberry yogurt against my face.”

“A lot of children don't find forever homes because they're on that special-needs list, even if it's because of something as simple as her mother smoked cigarettes for a month, not knowing she was pregnant.”

“Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.”

“As women, we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers, and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.”

“Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?”

“Guys are kind of retarded until they're about 30.”

“Guys are much more obvious than they think they are.”

“Hollywood likes to label everyone so you're easier to identify.”

“I am a better mother for having something in my life and not just my children.”

“I can hide, and my husband's just terrible at finding me. I do like to jump out from behind doors and scare him.”

“I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.”

“I definitely want to go out and explore different personalities and different people.”

“I do like change. That's the one thing exciting about me.”

“I don't have a lot of discipline.”

“I don't make big grand gestures, generally.”

“I don't want to be the person digging my own grave.”

“I have bad feet and I have weak ankles.”

“I have my moments, but generally speaking I shy away from being too lovey dovey.”

“I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.”

“I just like to shake things up, and your hair is one way to do it.”

“I just ultimately wanted to be a mother. I love children.”

“I keep kind of making certain mistakes in public appearances over and over again.”

“I like going on location for films.”

“I like predictability because I know what I'm getting into.”

“I never would rule out a great character or a great story. I don't care what the forum is. If I get to tell a story that I'm excited about, I'm in.”

“I overdramatize.”

“I prefer a kiss that is so much more than just a tongue in your mouth.”

“I pride myself on being kind.”

“I spent so many years just saying what I felt without thinking about the ramifications, without understanding that I have this opinion but not everyone might share that opinion and now they don't like me because of it.”

“I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and think it is a wonderful way to grow up.”

“I think that everybody has a right to their own thoughts, their own feelings and their own private moments, if they want them.”

“I totally wouldn't mind being able to wave my hand head to toe and have, like, a whole new outfit.”

“I want my family to resemble the family I came from.”

“I want to stay in the moment and enjoy the great things that are happening.”

“I'd be a terrible secret agent. I can't keep a secret and I'm not sneaky.”

“If I have to be focused and watch what I say, then I have to be comfortable.”

“If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.”

“If I start going back to church, I'd have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn't be able to curse any more.”

“If I wasn't in this industry, I wouldn't work out.”

“I'm a sappy mom now. I didn't think I would be. I thought I'd be a cool mom who keeps everything in perspective.”

“I'm a talker. I love a good debate.”

“I'm done with the whole idea of having my own children. It doesn't seem like any fun.”

“I'm not always so nice.”

“I'm not really a first-move kind of gal.”

“I'm not terribly sentimental.”

“I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out.”

“I'm really proud of myself because I've pared my beauty regimen down to a cream blush and berry-tinted lip balm, which has saved me so much time.”

“I'm terrible with my workout regime and following it strictly. I'm terrible with a healthy diet and following it strictly. I'm terrible on the weekends about getting up at reasonable hours and all of those things. But, when it comes to my work and the discipline it takes to get to work on time - I hate unprofessionalism.”

“I'm terrible with patience.”

“I'm the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fell.”

“I'm too lazy and I like food and I like my free time too much to spend it working out!”

“In my career, I'm very grateful for the opportunities.”

“Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.”

“It's easy to be taken advantage of if you're not honest.”

“It's lame to say that I'm a normal girl, but I think I am.”

“It's more fun to think that there are other worlds.”

“I've created a chaotic life, and then I get on edge because of it.”

“I've had paranoid panic attacks.”

“I've never really been America's sweetheart, but for a minute I think that's what they wanted me to be.”

“Kids are a huge sacrifice; they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.”

“Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.”

“My career is really important to me, but there have to be other great, important things in your life besides work.”

“My good friends are Mormon, some of the best people I know.”

“My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.”

“My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet.”

“My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.”

“My worst habit used to be smoking but I quit.”

“Obviously my career's important to me and I'm really, really passionate about trying to keep it.”

“Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonderful life.”

“Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn't even really give you a good buzz?'”

“So much about living life, to me, is about humility and gratitude. And I've tried very hard to have those qualities and be that person and I'm just so disappointed in myself that I allowed it to slip.”

“Some people think, if you're in the public eye, that you have to have an answer for everything and it has to be boring.”

“The mouthier I got, the more I'd be celebrated.”

“The world is still very bigoted.”

“There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest.”

“There were so many lean years. A lot of lean years.”

“We are all human beings, part of the human race, and we need to be compassionate and giving and kind with one another.”

“When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.”