What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.
You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.
When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.
I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that there's so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you.
It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.
My mother used to say, If other people have a problem with you, that's their problem. It's not your problem. I still have that philosophy today.
I think Canadians have always been interested in the choices Americans make because the choices you make inevitably impact upon us... and how we make sure that we get that balance right between continuing to have a good relationship and standing for the things we believe in is what we expect of ourselves.
If you believe, as I do believe, in reincarnation, they say that every time you come back, it's because you have to finish something. I've a funny feeling that my thing in this life is to have one relationship after another.
With 'That Awkward Moment', you could argue I'm just playing the girlfriend of Zac Efron, but the director was such a creative force and let me make her my own. I loved being part of something that felt so relevant and fresh.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
You would never catch me in a miniskirt.
Any time you do physical stuff, violence, it is controlled. It's a little bit like you block the move.
You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff.
The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
When you work on your own life, you are less likely to hyper focus on the imperfections of your husband.
I'm a terrible singer. I feel lucky to play baseball. You can't be gifted in everything.
I have never been what you would call just an integrationist. I know I've been called that... Integrating that bus wouldn't mean more equality. Even when there was segregation, there was plenty of integration in the South, but it was for the benefit and convenience of the white person, not us.
You can't do anything to help your team win when you don't play.
When you're educated, you must offer others a road to success.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.
I'm a micro-celebrity, about as small a celebrity as you can be.
The future is keeping you out of the present time.
When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.
Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You can only deal with what is the benchmark of a hit series and 'Survivor' clearly remains a hit series.
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.
And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else.
If you economically empower a woman, she represents enormous opportunity that can actually be transformative not only for her family and for her community, but at the aggregate level for the economy.
Over the years I attempted to make my style a bit more relaxed 'cause the initial style you couldn't watch for more than ten minutes without wanting to kill me.
If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.
If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.
You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible.
In L.A., you just kind of come and have a nice hiking-yoga-gym life.
Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you're in the can.
The sky's the limit if you have a roof over your head.
