I want to be contributing and working with people that I like and love, and this was the perfect combination.

I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.

The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.

Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much.

Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

I believe the experiences of life are more important than any film you make.

I wear sunscreen, and I don't smoke. I take care of myself. And I'm very proud to say that.

Breathe and don't try to be perfect.

I'm always happy to play the bad girl. I just get to have fun, and it's obviously all done with a smile.

Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience.

It is impossible to make time but you can always make a commitment.

Religions are many, reason is one, we are all brothers.

There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.

I don't think that someone who does not speak the original language can ever expect to produce a real translation.

In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.

Funny how mishearing things-or not hearing them at all-can really screw things up

Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.

After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.

Snakes have no arms. That's why they don't wear vests.