I miss singing. I did Broadway forever.

You gotta love yourself, because when you're hurting - you never know who's gonna be around to do the lovin' for ya. You gotta love yourself through the pain.

I think true beauty is everywhere. Be it. See it. Notice it. Love it. Be grateful for it. Marvel at it. It's everywhere. It's all around us all the time.

There's a lot of life on the planet that needs love, wants love, deserves love, in whatever capacity we are able.

Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult.

I have to welcome the pain like I welcome the joy.

I feel it is a blessing, a duty, an honor, that we give the love that we have, and we share the lives that we have with our fullest heart.

If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.

'Notorious' is a masterwork. I can watch it every day.

There are a lot of women who feel that they have done all the work in their relationship only for someone else to step in and take the love and credit for it.

My dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine,' but it's really, really true.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

Nothing wrong with people getting shot, as long as it's the right people getting shot.

But most is all to do with work. There are aspects of work that are enjoyable, that you could call a hobby.

Have patience, heart.

In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.

As a writer, you explore all kinds of different emotions.

[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected.

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.