It's easy to be beautiful - just be born that way.

I believe in the gold standard. I like solid lumps of things. You can always melt them down.

I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.

I got a coat lined with hampster. You couldn't do that kind of thing in America. All the Boy Scouts would go on strike.

And I only do what I do in life, which is model.

I stole comic books from my brother when I was a kid, but I was never like an avid fan. I can't claim to be like a comic book geek.

But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.

You'll never get anywhere unless you're independent of the good and bad opinion of others. Be fearless.

As I get older, I fear aging less because I realize it's the inevitable, but I definitely have a slight fear of aging.

Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

Loving people is the highest level of spiritual warfare that we could ever do

The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

If the studio wants to spend money on making your movie better, let them.

Too often, chefs just want to experiment - they want to use liquid nitrogen before they know how to use heat.