I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.

Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back since, but I was very appreciative of the experience.

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

You can never stop discovering music.

In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.

I am hell with a knife and there is nothing I can really do about it but try and keep my mouth shut and try not to let it show.

Don’t let negativity ruin your day.Don’t let inefficiency ruin your week.Don’t let adversity ruin your month.Don’t let animosity ruin your year.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

Let age, not envy, draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.

Morality in the novel is the trembling instability of the balance. When the novelist puts his thumb in the scale, to pull down the balance to his own predilection, that is immorality.

The hardest obstacle I've had to overcome is complacency.

You've gotta be business savvy really, or else you get the piss taken out of you.

I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.

The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.