Complacency in the presence of miracles is like opening the door to your own tomb.

The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.

Successful people have control over the time in their life. A shoemaker who owns his own shop gets up one morning and says, "I'm not opening." That's a successful guy.

That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one.

The first thing that your should do when you win an Oscar is thank God. The second thing you should do is forget it. The third thing you should do is call your agent and tell him you need a job.

Man is a greater miracle than any god he ever invented.

Respecting differences is very difficult.

Success means controlling your own time. Time is the most important currency, but once you spend it, man, its gone.

I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling.

Im not so sure that younger people today really appreciate the enormous bravery that went into the creation and production of that film, or how important a film at the time it really was.

Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it had an importance I hadn't thought of.

I'm obsessed with Led Zeppelin and have been since I was a teenager

Every previous era looks innocent.

I sat. And I thought. And the more I thought, connecting the events in my life, the more my heart collapsed.

Folks are obviously reluctant to do things that they don't feel comfortable with, and the conservative nature of the state is such that they can understand property rights.

I don't live in the past.

There is a massive ecosystem that has to get built that looks like a biosphere. And the various parts of that biosphere better be there.

The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.

I wanted clothing that I couldn't find, so I decided to make it.

They say, "Gee, you look great." That means they thought you looked like hell before.

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it