The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.
Blake Lively
I've been so lucky to work with such great people: people that are such hard workers and have such a respect and appreciation for one another.
The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree - those to me, are the scents of the holidays.
If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never yours to begin with.
Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies.
People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won't be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves. I think at any age or any social class, that's present.
If you want someone to miss you, go secretly and spray your fragrance somewhere.
I love to photograph the gorgeous landscapes when I travel.
I'd rather be by myself than be spending any time or energy on somebody that I didn't feel sure about.
You know that old saying, 'A way to a man's heart is through his stomach' - that's me.
I love being at home and cooking and baking.
When you shampoo your hair, you're trying to get the oil out of your roots, but you really want the rest of your hair to maintain its moisture. When you put coconut oil on the ends, the shampoo gets oil out of the roots, but also protects the ends.
I came from a big family - two brothers and two sisters. So, there were always a ton of boys around and a ton of girls around. So, I grew up comfortable with both sexes.
There is something about New Orleans that embodies passion; I've never seen that before. There's something tangible about the essence of the city. You can taste and smell it.
When I have bad days, I just eat lots of chocolate ice cream and dance to the 'Lion King' soundtrack. It's really odd, but it's true.
I really don't like the gym. I like experiences, so I take any chance I get to go on a bicycle or on a hike.
Honestly, I am a shy person.
I think that when you smell good, you feel good. You know how when you're in a room and someone else smells good, you're like, 'Where is that?'
When I'm in a relationship, I give my heart and soul to it and do it 100 percent.
All I need is my Chanel dress, my Louboutins, and some red lipstick.
I was in a show choir. I can't sing or dance to save my life, but I was very passionate. People said my parents paid the choir director to let me in. It was actually the parents who started that one!
I had a premonition when I was nine that I'd marry Leonardo DiCaprio.
The Gucci woman can be the equestrian woman, the woman in the suit, the woman in the flowy bohemian dress, or the couture woman.
When I say something funny, I don't laugh.
I have smuggled so many ingredients across so many borders, like shallot confit from Thailand, or a new sauce from New Orleans not approved by the FDA.
I need good friends who can say, 'I love you to death, but you look terrible in that, and you need to change right now.'
I've always been a night owl.
Since my kitchen is the most important part of my home, I want to be creative and innovative, not only in its aesthetic, but also in the tools that I'm using to cook.
Fragrance is a bit of a selfish gift because it's comforting when you're near someone and you recognize their smell.
My mom is a huge woman of worth for me because she's been my idol my whole life. My mom was someone who juggled everything. She had her own career, she raised five kids, she was Superwoman... and she was never satisfied doing just one thing because... she probably just had too much energy.
I first started wearing fragrance when I was thirteen or fourteen, and the smell was candy-like. They were in very colorful bottles, like turquoise and pink. By the time I was sixteen or seventeen, it got more girly and more floral.
I was raised in a really terrific, close family, and I've never needed to escape anything or to really let myself go by dancing on tables.
Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.
My hair is a safety net for me, so I love to have it down and full and relaxed.
Stars really are like anyone else. At the end of the day, Brad Pitt poops - as handsome as he may be - and so does Angelina Jolie.
My mom taught me this really great beauty tip. She used to put oil or mayonnaise on the bottom half of her hair before she would shower.
You can't be an entrepreneur for other people. You can't start a company for other people. You have to love it more than you ever thought of loving something that wasn't a human being. The demands will kick you down and rob your life - but yet, it is so rewarding.
When I see old movies with women in floor-length dressing gowns, or when they're going to the store and they've got a pillbox hat with a net over the eyes and white gloves, I'm offended that I can't go to the store like that.
Soy lattes get me through my day!
Scents evoke very, very powerful memories, whether it's the scent of someone that you know and someone that you love, or if it's a meal that your mother made.
I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was broken, and she'd preserve it.
I'm passionate about anything I align myself with. You want to talk about chocolate chip cookies? I'm not going to open a chocolate chip cookie store, but I will talk your ear off about it.
Martha Stewart's my idol.
So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.
The New York that Frank Sinatra sang about, people will never know that place. The New Orleans that Louis Armstrong sang about is the New Orleans that's still there - it's preserved.
I wear a lot more glitter around the holidays, so I'm always wearing different glitter nail polish or fun metallic eye shadow. It's the holidays - everything is more twinkly and celebratory.
My mom and dad always taught acting, so instead of getting me babysitters, they would just bring me to class.
I take a cooking class everywhere I travel. I find it's the best way to get to know a culture.
People just wanna talk. They wanna create negative things about you and your life and make up things. You can't let them affect you!
I have a tight-knit Southern family.
