A lot of people are not meant to be together.

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

When I count other people's blessings I lose sight of mine.

I directed a movie back in the '90s which had calf roping in it, and I got into it quite a bit back then.

Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge

15 concubines ain't nothin' to sneeze at.

People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman.

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

You can't fake passion. It is the fuel that drives any dream and makes you happy to be alive.

Oh, I think the biggest lesson in Wisconsin is that 60 percent of the people do not believe that recall elections were proper for policy differences, short of some criminal offense.

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!