I'm probably going to deliver my baby in these [4-inch YSL heels] ... I went to the doctor yesterday and he said, 'You're gonna need to get out of those heels!'

I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

Is this chicken what I have or is this fish? I know it's tuna. But it says chicken. By the sea.

Am I eating chicken or tuna?

People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.

laugh a lot. It burns a lot of calories.

I made sure no butt cheek hung out. You know, the original Daisy, Catherine Bach's shorts were shorter than mine.

Every tear should live its purpose. Don't ever wipe the reason away.

I think anything sounds good with a Southern accent.

I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our color palette."

Motherhood is a dream. It really is absolutely amazing.

What is reading but silent conversation?

Doubt not but God who sits on high Thy secret prayers can hear When a dead wall thus cunningly Conveys soft whispers to the ear.

Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.

I had no balance in my life. I was this one person onstage and this person offstage, who really didn't know much about living.

You read the papers and you watch television, so you know the kind of spider-brained, commercially poisoned piece-of-crap reporting you get in America.

I think the financial restraint really pushes me as a director to be more creative with the way I shoot the film.

I didn't form a group to perform Cilla Black songs.

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world

Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels may alight.

That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.