I don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that people were afraid of me without knowing me.

I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting?

I figured out, I guess, that the job just makes me happy if it's not number one. So if it all works, great. If it doesn't, I still go home, look at my kids, and I have a big smile on my face.

I'm proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany.

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

Focus on your true purpose in life and stop focusing on other people's flaws, mistakes and failures. The fulfillment of your positive purpose on earth truly needs your undivided attention.

We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment

It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

I like the feeling that anything, anything, could happen.

[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.

The one thing that keeps us out of connection is our fear that we're not worthy of connection.

If we complained less, and praised more, we should be happier, and God would be more glorified.

I do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman.

I like to write. I like to do that when I'm not working so I don't go totally crazy, and so I feel like I'm still doing something constructive.

Unmissed but by his dogs and by his groom.