If I had to design a career for myself, I would have done comedy.

Being married, I would say most relationships are pretty codependent in some ways.

I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that's OK, because I still get to tell people I've worked with Robert DeNiro.

Do I get up some days and feel competitive? Sure. Do I get up some days and feel afraid? Of course. But...I have real moments of joy now, and I know it will continue.

I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.

Maybe it's that I'm naive, but I don't think of myself as an age.

I envy my daughter's childhood.

I always go into a film situation depressed and fearful.

I don't know much about sports.

Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star, ' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.

I have nothing against younger women and older men on screen. What is sad is that so many women over 40 who have so much to give aren't being considered to play opposite men their own age or younger.

i have laughedmore than daffodilsand cried more than June.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.

Never, my little one, hide anything from those that love you. Never let anything that makes itself a nest in your heart, grow into a secret, for then at once it will begin to eat a hole in it.

Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.

You'll shoot the moon... put out the sun... when you love someone.

Every criticism or slight against you, warranted or not, received or endured humbly, is written in heaven for your reward.

First, knife skills. Then, knowing how to control heat. Most important is choosing the right product .. the rest is simple.

In Russia, less than one percent of trials end with an acquittal. With trials that were initiated for political reasons those chances are zero.

One thing that success has taught me is censorship.