If you really care about children then why would you want to keep families from adopting them?

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange?

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

If I'm talking to a guy who's straight and cute and single, I'm like 'are you a unicorn?'

I’m not playing the race card. I’m playing the rice card.

When you address and acknowledge unpleasant realities, your creativity begins to soar and you come up with apparently magical solutions to problems.

Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature's language into the hands of another language foreign to it.

When I was at drama school I wanted to do classical theatre. It just so happened that I did a film when I came out and I moved that way.

Instead of talking at each other about the non-business-related contact, talk to each other about your concerns about marriage. Listen a lot, too.

The State of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.

Our job if you will, is to roll the stone away. God's job is to raise the dead.

Sure, things could always have been done better, but I just wish people would drop their political hammers for a few weeks, as happened in 2001, and work on the problem at hand

Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.

I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.

I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years.