I'm not supposed to communicate something that's completely unrealistic.

Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.

Air pollution is terrible for our children. Every single scientist, every single doctor will tell you the same thing: Air pollution damages our children’s brains, their hearts, and their lungs.

I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.

We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos.

The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

If you're 50, you're never going to be 50 ever again, so enjoy being 50. If you sit through the year wishing you were younger, before you know it, it's going to be over, and you're going to be 51.

We have to work for a living, but it is your life, so make sure you find something that you enjoy doing and people that you enjoy doing it with. Then, hopefully, you'll have a happy life.

I've heard it said that winning an Oscar means you live five years longer. If that's true I want to thank the academy because my husband is younger than me.

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

When two broken hearts meet, they find their missing part in each other.

We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality, we can feel immortal for a few hours.

I just woke up one day when I was six and I wanted to play the violin. Then, six years later, I didn't want to play the violin, but I wanted to sing and play the guitar.

My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.

My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.

Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.

Well, some people die and then they sell more records, go figure.