I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.

If your wearing lingerie that makes you feel glamorous, you're halfway thereto turning heads.

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others.

Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.

You have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.

I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall.

I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself.

Underwear is such an emotional thing.

The birth of my sons. The birth of new emotions...what a privilege. What a blessing.

I like colourful knickers, but most importantly a great pair of knickers should be taken off with more joy than they were put on.

Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.

A simple look can not and will not uncover even a simple book.

An autobiography is inherently incomplete unless the last page is written on the eve of the author's demise.

I'll start drinking tea over coffee when the big hand is on Never and the little hand is on Ain't Gonna Happen.

For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I am a dark-skinned, nappy-headed, scar-faced dude from the streets of Brooklyn. I can't hide from being who I am. It's all over my face.

Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present.

Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what it is, instead of constructing it upwards.

When it comes to mountains there are two kinds of people; those who walk half way up & quit & those who conquer it which one are you?