I would do most anything to make you happy, Howel, if you'd let me. I would become your servant, lay whatever you wanted at your feet.

Despite everything - your lies, your wounds, I cannot help but love you. I'm helpless against it.

I hated labels anyway. People didn’t fit in slots—prostitute, housewife, saint—like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.

Almost everything I've done is technically wrong, but Paul never mentioned the mistakes, only the corrective measures.

It won't take weeks... Our military machine will crush Iraq in a matter of days and there's no question that it will.

As a future goal, I just want to be one of those guys that is known.

I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me.

One of the things I'm going to say out there is how grateful I am - and how grateful the world is - for the tremendous gift of the black people, of jazz.

After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.

I believe in wishes and in a person's ability to make a wish come true, I really do. And a wish is more than a wish.. it's a goal that your conscience and subconscience can help make reality.

By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.

There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.