I'm fairly sure I didn't show enough gratitude to my employers, and I'm sorry for that.

Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

I saw the horizon. It's out there. And though I may not ever be able to touch it, it's worth reaching for.

Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

I don't make any pretense about being normal. I'm not.

I'm very wary of news on television.

Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

I'll take being on Baywatch over being Prom Queen any day.

Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades.

In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.

I act here and there but you have to commit so far out in advance when you're directing that you - I'm kind of booked six months out, so it's hard.

When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.

Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being a parent.