It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

Hope makes a gladden heart.

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.

When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.

I did everything he did but backwards & in high heels.

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated.

I'm confident and really optimistic.

You are not made of metaphors, Not apologies, not excuses.

I'm a Muslim and I'm really looking forward to my wedding day. I can't wait to meet my husband.

Anybody that shoots a hook shot, whatever hand, I jump up and cheer because it's the easiest shot, it's the best tweener shot.