I don't understand how women can manage to get back in shape with a new baby and a job.

Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places.

I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.

I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me.

My world was a community ballet school, a marching band, my two sisters and my girlfriends. I played saxophone in the band and was a bit nerdy.

I mean, the men in Hollywood event is every day - it's called Hollywood.

I will tell you what I can't abide - and I think the Internet has really created a space for it - women criticizing other women and mothers criticizing other mothers.

No matter what, it is very tricky and difficult just to be a good parent at all. I have a lot of help. And for that I'm very grateful.

The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.

The outside world can be very tough.

Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.

May be its mine bad-luck Or yours not to get me But I still have hope Of being yours

When there's trouble I don't like running, but I'm afraid I got more in common with who I was, than who I am becoming

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice.

Everybody is blessed with a certain talent, you have to know what your talent is maximize it and push it to the limit.

The artist is the only lover; he alone has the pure vision of beauty, and love is the vision of the soul when it is permitted to gaze upon immortal beauty.

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.

I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again.

There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

It is intelligent to ask two questions: (1) Is it possible? (2) Can I do it?. But it is unintelligent to ask these questions: (1) Is it real? (2) Has my neighbor done it?