As an actress, I really love people like Anna Magnani and Debra Winger. I also think there is nobody better than Meryl Streep.

My ambition is to be happy.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

My definition of beauty is without rules. It can be the face of a beautiful 90-year-old woman that is full of stories and emotion. Beauty is what somebody's eyes communicate.

All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.

We need to stop the dying and start the living; stop the hunger and start the hoping.

I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sentences: "How are you?" and "I want to work with Johnny Depp."

I think magic is very related to happiness. So it is not there all the time, but there are beautiful moments of magic in everyone's life.

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.

Every relationship ends, until maybe you find one that lasts forever.

You Are At Different Levels With Different People.

Commitment is a curse if it interferes with righteousness.

Lies and half-truths hurt not only the liar, but the people they love most.

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

Don't use your bedroom for work, unless you're a prostitute.

I'm trying to give people the chance to put out their music without the bullshit pressures of other labels.

Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.

Inner life is Divine.

God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.

Injuries are our best teachers.