I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

No amount of makeup can mask an ugly heart.

That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.

The fact is, there really is no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty

Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul, and sometimes even in myself.

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.

Glamour is not self-conscious; it’s not trying really hard. It’s just expressing your own truth. I think that’s what the essence of glamour really is—expressing your uniqueness.

Beauty might bring happiness, but happiness always brings beauty.

For me, beauty is synonymous with uniqueness . . . perfection is mundane, boring, and emotionless. It is by celebrating the differences in others that we can begin to accept our own individuality.

Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.

It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it won't make your soul pretty.

The stars could fall - the moon could crash from the heavens - and Mariko could not care.

Hell isn’t fire and brimstone. It’s New York City.

We can’t remain silent on gender rights and personal freedoms.

Hey, I just thought of something.""What?""When we're together, we make one whole Italian.

Even-money that my liver lasts through my wife's metamorphosis to my mother-in-law.

Politkovskaya was a known critic of the administration. For this reason, one cannot rule out the possibility that someone would want to blame the government for the murder.

Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.

Reason is the main resource of man in his struggle for survival.

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.

I grew up playing soccer and always loved playing it.