I was always very comfortable with who I was. Confident. I’ve never looked at [my body] in a negative way.

Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.

My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!

It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.

I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge.

You have to remember the value of your individuality - that you have something special and different to offer that nobody else can.

Don't push your weaknesses, play with your strengths

I have the stardom glow.

I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.

A rubber plant is just about the ideal family.

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis

I don't have the luxury of making clothes just to make an effect. It can't be something totally frivolous, because my distributors have to have a successful season, too.

Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.

Life is not a burden, but we make it one when we refuse to accept things as they are.

Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.

I think that people see that Sandra Bullock has an ability to laugh at herself and you just don't find that too often.

As a filmmaker, "no" is not in my vocabulary. I've got to figure out a way.