"I was always a performer, always on stage, but I also always believed I was going to go home, open a dance school, get married, and have what you would call a 'normal' life."

"A fearful child cannot learn."

"I think journaling is an important, intrinsic experience, and a lot of us don't spend enough time on it."

"We haven't given our brain the ability to actually analyze something clearly and appropriately before we speak and before we take action."

"Listening is huge. Learn to listen. And it's hard: relationships are not easy; most of them don't last. I mean, when you look at what's really going on. So every day is a choice, and sense of freedom is important."

"I've been married twice. It didn't work."

"I never quite fit in - at least, from my own perspective, you know."

"I don't read much, to tell you the truth, about me, you know. I don't read my articles very much or stuff like that, but I have read things upon occasion, and some of it is true, and some of it isn't true, you know. I mean it's just the way it goes, you know."

"Men are different than women, and men live with - with some very difficult obstacles. I mean, a man, basically, in his true nature, is to spread his seed, and a woman is a gatherer, and that's kind of the way we're - our limbic system is set up, you know."

"At 11 years old, I made a very definitive decision, and my decision was that I wanted to be happy. Above and beyond anything I ever did in my life, I wanted to be happy."

"I've worked alongside some very good directors and some not so good."

"I believe that life is about doing."

"If you lose wonder, you've lost everything."

"We can't turn a blind eye to the importance of the well-being of our children, and we need to pay close attention to building the future leaders of tomorrow."

"Central to our work and our goal of finding solutions to global problems is the concept of mindfulness, a technique for focusing attention objectively on the here and now."

"After I did 'Private Benjamin,' suddenly the reputation was that Goldie Hawn calls her own shots."

"'Liberation' is an interesting word because you can be liberated from external things and also from your internal dialogue."

"Don't tell me I can't do that. Watch me. Don't tell me I can't direct this movie. Watch me."

"I don't want to sound like you never feel anything - we've all loved and lost, all had a lot of pain, and we're supposed to. We're humans; it's the way it works. But it's how you manage it, how you manage those tears and that pain. How you are able to get yourself out of it."

"I would like to see a mandate for social and emotional learning absolutely mandated in every state."

"I think that's what makes a successful marriage: a mindful sense of self and the ability to make clear choices to stay together or choices not to."

"I'm not a proponent of staying together and being miserable and damaged and coming through actually a more battered person."

"I didn't really want to be a movie star. I thought they were so screwed up!"

"I'm generally known as a happy person, but years ago, I suffered from panic and anxiety. I've learned to manage the fear and pain."

"If you have a negative thought - 'I can't stand my boss' - it perpetuates a negative worldview. But if you supplant each negative thought with three positive ones, you begin to restructure your brain."

"People talk about the brain weakening as it ages. Mine feels stronger."

"I just love good smells."

"Being a dancer is my metaphor for life because you have to know your body. Being a dancer and paying attention to fitness is all about moving in balance."

"Not every relationship works, and that is the truth, and I don't care whether you're a movie star or just a person on the street, normal life. Everybody's normal, relationships are always normal. I think movie stars have a little bit harder time because the cameras are on there all the time. But you have to be who you are."

"I think that men have tremendous ability to lead. And I think women have a tremendous ability to lead, and they lead differently, and it gives a wonderful perspective to the problems."

"Familiarize yourself with the parts of your brain and their function."

"'Private Benjamin' was the first movie I produced, and I produced it for practical reasons."

"One way to feel good about yourself is to love yourself... to take care of yourself."

"The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are."

"I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile."

"The ability to remain calm and focused in stressful situations is central to making positive decisions."

"I'm not afraid of my femininity and I'm not afraid of my sexuality."

"It's "wonderful "to know you're aging, because that means you're still on the planet, right?"

"Whether you're successful or not, you'll never actually feel the joys of accomplishment unless you love yourself. Success can be very difficult to deal with. You have to stay in the center. If you let your success define you, then you're really just setting yourself up for failure."

"Mindfulness can help people of any age. That's because we become what we think."

"I noted that people are happy here in India. When I went back home, people had everything in the materialistic sense and were surrounded with abundance, but they were not happy."

"What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here?"

"It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up."

"We go into restaurants, and people aren't talking anymore. They're texting. While they are sitting at a restaurant with each other. So we're losing this intimacy that we need to have as human beings."

"My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small... my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don't want people to see how thin they are."

"Youthfulness is connected to the ability to see things new for the first time. So if your eyes still look at life with wonder, then you will seem young, even though you may not be chronologically young."

"I'm a dreamer with lots of energy and a vivid imagination. That's the recipe for becoming an entertainer."

"A lasting relationship isn't about marriage. It's about compatibility and communication. And you both need to want it to work."

"I'll bike up the mountain, or I'll do Pilates or spin."

"I like to cook, and I tend to make those one-pot meat dishes of my Hungarian ancestors. Also, I make a great Bolognese."