Thinking about quantum physics is like unraveling your brain and putting it back together again upside down. Much like studying Kabbalah.
I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
I love women's fashion, but women don't need me as much as men do. It's the men who have nothing to wear.
I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.
I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.
Conductors make too much fuss about conductors! Humility and hard work are virtues. We're nothing without our musicians.
As an actor, I feel there isn't much to explore on TV. So, if I get better work as a host, why wouldn't I do it?
It was just really, really tough getting anything when you were a female. Basically, I just took advantage of everything I could. But when people are going to flat out tell you they're not going to hire anyone that's female, there's not much you can do about it.
When I lived in Greece and off the coast of Italy, I enjoyed a branzino dish so much that I created my own version.
I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.
People look at you, and they think they know you. They think they can place you in a certain category by what they think they know about you. But there's so much more to all of us than what we know and what we see at face value.
I had always studied French and was obsessed with French films. I hated the way American films always had happy endings. I liked the way French films had dark and unpleasant characters; it was much more realistic.
I really love training and being in good shape, and it's so much a part of my life now, so it never really feels like work to me.
It was always intriguing that flies had two peaks of activity, in the morning and evening, with a siesta during the day and not very much activity at night. There are several ways to explain that, but one possibility was that there were two clocks running - one governing the morning peak and one governing the evening peak.
It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.
Indy car racing is much more aggressive.
If you quit once, it's so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.
There's not much difference between what I appear to be on stage and what I am. I think people like that, that I'm not trying to pull a caper.
Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
I didn't spend much time in America, which probably was a mistake. To someone else, having a number one in America would be enough to get them touring.
As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary.
I'm always amazed at how much people 'get' when I'm performing overseas. I've never had to change my act on my international shows; I just make sure that I've taken some time to get to know the people in those countries before I perform. That's been really useful.
There's a whole lot of songs that men just can't do. The words are from another time and represent too much of an emotional commitment, whereas women can say that because of who they are.
I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine.
Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.
We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn't say much, but some of them were kind of soft-headed, but they did that. That was an East German film.
If you think too much about something, you're not feeling it.
I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.
Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create as much surprise and spontaneity and feeling and variation while respecting that structure.
All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room.
You give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could touch us, but God has a way of not arranging that, because it's not as much fun.
Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed down. The students were up in arms. And it looked very much like there were going to be real problems in this country.
My favorite hobby is writing and recording songs at my studio. I like to surf, but I don't get a chance to do that as much as I'd like. I don't live close to the beach. I also like to ski, but I don't get to do that much, either.
