I still feel like I have so much to learn. I love that feeling, that next time I go to set, I will be terrified again. I don't want it to be any other way.

My ambition is to be happy.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

My definition of beauty is without rules. It can be the face of a beautiful 90-year-old woman that is full of stories and emotion. Beauty is what somebody's eyes communicate.

All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.

We need to stop the dying and start the living; stop the hunger and start the hoping.

I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sentences: "How are you?" and "I want to work with Johnny Depp."

I think magic is very related to happiness. So it is not there all the time, but there are beautiful moments of magic in everyone's life.

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.

Every relationship ends, until maybe you find one that lasts forever.

That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do.

When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing.

I keep telling myself I don't practice enough to be a perfectionist. And I don't practice enough to get mad. So my temper has subdued and my attitude is subdued.

That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.

I'm not a good lover, but at least I'm fast.

From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

You don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, but you want to get rid of the bathwater so the baby can swim the next couple of days and be OK.

These are desparate times." - Stephanie Plum

If somebody says, "Oh, we're going to improvise!," I'm like, Oh, get me out of here.

People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity.