I always had an interest in the environment... to protect our planet... for the ocean to go on.

Picasso has been my inspiration, expressing himself in a hundred different ways.

A lot of my work just sort of flows and comes out of me and I don't know why or where.

My painting Two Worlds actually changed the way people see the world.

Cubism is fascinating to me. I love trying to figure it out. It's just a different way of seeing... I think there are many avenues that haven't been explored yet.

I strive to make the next painting better than the last one. That's why the most exciting thing to me is the next one.

The important thing for any writer to remember is to take the writing seriously, but not the writer.

There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.

Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all.

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.

Diplomacy is unfashionable in the world of knee-jerk reaction and the dogmatic sound bite on television.

I feel a feeling which I feel you all feel.

The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.

I swore on screen when I got the Olivier for 'Legally Blonde,' I was so surprised. Awards where the public vote mean a lot. I'm a big Twitter fan and like talking to people who support me.

Hell hath no fury like a woman cheated out of a million dollars.