Crystal Quotes

A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it's really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it's great.

I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answer them for you.

If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.

You really have to have some muscle to be on the stage in front of the world.

Good news, they found Nemo! The bad news is, they found him in one of Wolfgang Puck's puff pastries.

It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.

No matter what size you are, you must be healthy. I focus on health as a model, whether it's doing yoga, hiking, kickboxing - those things bring me joy.

All women bring something different to the table and we have to appreciate them all.

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.

The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife.

As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is.

I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing or something.

I don't like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.

It's money. I remember it from when I was single

There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.

So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing.

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

Getting buried alive will always be my claim to fame.

Gentlemen, start your egos!

I can't be funny if my feet don't feel right.

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.

We women are a lot more powerful if we see ourselves as fighters on the same side. But it’s easier to judge others - their choices and their bodies - than to think about the struggles we share.

Country is not what you heard on the Grammys.

You have to be committed or you fall behind, lose out.

The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices.

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.

I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that.

I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.

I'm going to be your grandpa! / I have the biggest smile. / I've been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while.

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to learn that it's what's inside that counts. Love to me now is understanding. It's giving.

You can never go wrong with a nice red lip. I'm not afraid to wear it during the day or basically any time because I wear a lot of black and it's a great backdrop for it.

Too many of us feel that we have to be perfect, in order to be loved.

I loved rollerskating when I was younger.

Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one.

Staying focused is hard work and staying married is even harder.

They've never written a love story for me since I've been on the show and I think there's just more weight to it when two people love each other.

The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.

I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.

I feel like every couple years MTV reinvents itself in some way, you know?

All I ever want to do is what I am: a singer.

When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What's he doing hitting the government?

I quit drinking. That was a big problem for a lot of years. Then after that, I just started feeling grateful again.

Don't give up your power.

I didn't rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing.

I'm married - I've caught my limit.

When you realize you want to invest the rest of your lifestyle with somebody, you want the rest of your life to commence as quickly as achievable.