When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
My husband says, 'What Joan walk? You've always walked that way!'
I am really not of the school of naturalism. I like style, and you can use more style in theater than in film roles. I love to sink my teeth into a part.
Writing good ads is easy when you have something to say.
He tells you stories, but then, after a while, when you want more, he doesn't give you more. He insists on this old elaboration, the old stories that never changes.
Shooting clay targets is a very cleansing experience. It's very relaxing. It takes a lot of concentration. It's also very social, since you're usually shooting with friends. You can talk and forget about almost anything else that's on your mind.
Give me something to do and you will make me happy.
There's a general understanding amongst, I think, most people in this country that whether or not you have a preexisting condition, it's not your fault, and you shouldn't be discriminated against in healthcare policy.
I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.
In Spain and Italy I would not have a life among the fans. Everyone wants to touch you, own you and approach you. I try to be as kind as possible to all my fans, but in those countries I could not do it. There they ask too much from you.
You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.
I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.
I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that... we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and... preposterous.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.
That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.
What I found was when I started my first study, and then in subsequent studies, is here you have people under some kind of duress, or I chose to study them because they represented some kind of historical event, as it impacted on them or as they helped to create it.
But again, to dealing with border security, is an issue that - it's like having a fire in the back of your house that you need to put out first before you talk about who, who you're going to let in the front door.
Well, what are you going to do about it?
For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves.
'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there is more than a total of 10 minutes that takes place in a person's home. They're all in offices, courtrooms, laboratories, things like that.
You do not send me to Brooklyn to get a cheesecake and then I come back and you're gone.
That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke.
Directing 'When You Find Me' was one of the most creatively rewarding endeavors of my career.
If you dig it, do it. If you dig it a lot, do it twice.
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.
You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.
There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.
No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.
That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws.
Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.
There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa.
The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially, the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate.
