"Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me."

"Life isn't always easy, but it's simple."

"I think of myself as still being about five."

"I feel like I have the fortune of privilege, particularly as it relates to my children."

"There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things. It's when we place that as a measure of the value of ourselves that it goes askew."

"When one person is enslaved, we're all enslaved."

"Models, even male models - how small they've gotten! It looks great for the clothes, but it's not what you want in real life."

"I'm an incurable optimist and a go-getter - it's in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous."

"Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose."

"I entered this career having no background or connection to acting."

"You don't come into this life wanting to be anything other than happy."

"At its core Twitter is about sharing, and I think that in life we never feel better or more energized than when we're giving to someone else."

"I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side."

"I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value."

"There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals."

"I want things to be the best they can be. I want greatness."

"Emilio Estevez was definitely my first love."

"The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees."

"I said I would get better with each baby, and I have."

"I don't like to take my clothes off."

"When you feel sexy or sensuous, you naturally want to open up and give, and I think that comes from being able to receive love and desire."

"You have to acknowledge a problem exists before you can actually go about finding a solution."

"There is no way to reach your fullest potential if you don't really find the love of yourself."

"I had an essence in my life that I was nothing."

"I'm a big believer in that if you focus on good skin care, you really won't need a lot of makeup."

"Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not."

"I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi."

"For the moment I prefer to be a beautiful woman of my age than try desperately to look 30."

"Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person."

"I have had a love-hate relationship with my body."

"Not caring more about what other people think than what you think. That's freedom."

"Ashton jumped in and said, 'I want you to know that I don't take coming into childrens lives lightly'. That was within the first couple of weeks of our relationship, before he had met the girls. they are my priority and I've always be sensitive to their feelings, but as the parent you can't allow your children to dictate what's right for you."

"Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'"

"I used to think that what scared me was the idea of being abandoned until someone said to me, 'Only children can be abandoned. Adults can't be abandoned because we have a choice. Children don't have a choice.'"

"I would say what scares me is that I'm going to ultimately find out at the end of my life that I'm really not lovable, that I'm not worthy of being loved. That there's something fundamentally wrong with me."

"It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have decided to end my six-year marriage to Ashton. As a woman, a mother and a wife there are certain values and vows that I hold sacred, and it is in this spirit that I have chosen to move forward with my life."

"It really isn't anybody's business how many people we have working for us. What's offensive is that I'm portrayed as this prima donna with these sycophants telling me how great I am all the time. Yes, they do work for me, but we're working together for a higher good."

"When I'm at the greatest odds with my body, it's usually because I feel my body's betraying me, whether that's been in the past, struggling with my weight and feeling that I couldn't eat what I wanted to eat, or that I couldn't get my body to do what I wanted it to do."

"I feel sexy because I feel loved. That's what sexy is-it's feeling good from the inside. When you feel sexy or sensuous, you naturally want to open up and give, and I think that comes from being able to receive love and desire."

"In my personal life I wasn't someone who cried easily, someone who was extremely vulnerable, you know, in that way that's constantly seeking out affirmation from other people. I've always been much more the person who took care of everyone else."

"I try to focus on the present, what I'm doing now. I feel like the best design I can have is an awareness of where I've come from so that I don't repeat myself. Luckily, my work provides me with a tremendous source of new opportunities."