I don't care what you say about me. Just spell the name right.
Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
The most fun is to play clubs, because you actually get to see the people.
It doesn't seem Shakespeare works if you turn him into a religion.
It's all about the director for me; we have to click. It's a trust thing. I'll say I'm ready to let down my walls. I'll cry for you as long as you need. But you're going to have to hug me afterwards.
If you're married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife 'I love her' the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that's how I feel about my relationship with Jesus Christ is that it is the most important thing in my life.
There's an abundance of exposure when you start working in American films. Inevitably you become a brand and that has to be controlled.
Women are now very comfortable to have babies into their late 30s. You can be a father in your 50s. I'm not saying it's for everybody, and I think people have to get their own life secure before they take on the responsibility of a partner and children.
The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.
Let me tell you who I am: I'm a girl from New Jersey who moved to New York and worked in a bar while trying to make a living at what I really wanted to do, which was act.
Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.
It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus in on the band, but instead focused in on a theme.
I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
Know that you are worth so much more than the value you place on your body. It's not the only thing that defines you.
Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.
Minute by minute, you decide who you are and who you're likely to be. You make the choices hour by hour, just in the present. I don't believe there's some roadmap laid out that we're headed towards.
Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.
I feel young at heart, and I feel, like, you know, 40.
In big battle scenes, like 'King Arthur', you see the knights in all their fine armour, but they're not in the thick of it: follow the perspective, and you'll find some poor little sod, who didn't want to be there, anyway, with his head split.
I've picked a camera up a few times. I remember buying my first camera when I was about 18 and really going wild with it, as you do as an 18-year-old, especially when you're in college.
Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives.
I'm much more about the emotion that a photograph provokes out of you and less about how technically brilliant it is.
You know, my mom, who inspired me to be a novelist, I remember her reading 'The Agony and the Ecstasy,' about Michelangelo, and saying, 'No mother would want that for her child, no matter how great the artist.' I have my share of demons, but I am a gregarious sort.
In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.
We can't have deficit spending in Texas. You have to balance your budget every two years.
Whatever you do, take pride in it and be great at it.
Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.
If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.
People wanted me to be like the Madonna, the white nun, you know, and that's not me. But I'm no villain.
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know more now and I hear more now and I had a life that I've lived!
Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.
I think the rhythm is like the spine of the piece. If you change that, then the body that forms around it is changed as well.
Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.
You can't change who you are, but you can change what you have in your head, you can refresh what you're thinking about, you can put some fresh air in your brain.
All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.
