I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.

I listen to a variety of music. The only common point is strong lyrics; I'm more obsessed with lyrics than music. I need to hear a form of truth, and if it's a hard truth, even better.

In England you laugh at yourselves, in France we laugh at others.

The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great.

I think I was pretty much hated in France. The French press ignored me. There was a movement when the children of celebrities faced strong animosity.

I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars.

It is impossible for me to get involved in films that I don't like, so I just wait for a project that really tickles my fancy.

There's something I find highly embarrassing about it. As soon as I think I've written something smart, the next day I've got nausea, thinking, "Don't even try to be smart, it's absurd."

I was always the funny-looking girl. I couldn't compete with the Brazilian girls. My nose is off, my ears are too big. But I think it's my personality that these designers were drawn to.

I love acting; I love movie sets and movies, but, at the same time, there's something about the position of women in that world that frightens me a lot. I find it nearly inhuman to be an actress.

I like costumes. I am always dressing up - I'm very English like that.

Namaste. It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you.

[T]here is something to recommend a story that ends.

followed a step behind. My thoughts churned as my emotions seesawed

There are some people i'd take a bullet for, and some people i'd like to put a bullet in.

You've got to connect with the things that you love.

A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.

She was getting bitchy.That was a good sign. "What am I supposed to do till you get back?" I said, patting the smouldering leather. "Hide in my closet? I"d rather be with you.

Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine, messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.

A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.