My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.

Don't wear big earrings and a big necklace and a big ring all at the same time. Pick your magic.

I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.

Be yourself, fill your life with good people, and don't get a big head. It can all be gone tomorrow.

Don't believe everything you read.

I'm going to get up every morning at 6:30 to work out. Then, when I've kept with it all week, I give myself something I really want, like a new handbag or a piece of jewelry I'm coveting.

I'm the one who's always kissing all the boys and stuff.

I still love red velvet cake.

I've also learned that sometimes, no matter how much you want things to work, you have to accept that sometimes they just don't.

I think I've done every crazy diet there was in the beginning, but it's weird: I'm thinner now than I was when I was modeling. I don't obsess about it.

I absolutely love being a mother.

But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last.

Writers block occurs when a writer has nothing to say. Unfortunately not all writers experience it.

The moment I realize I just stayed up until five in the morning writing is that moment I know I am meant to be a writer.

Courage, kindness and a great determination to succeed in life with a smile were hallmarks of my wonderful wife. And why her story deserves to be told.

Complete control can be the death of a work.

Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.

When I'm lying drunk at an airport the press call me Irish... but when I win an Oscar, I'm classified as British.

I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.

The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.

The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.