On every film, the clothes are half the battle in creating the character. I have a great deal of opinion about how my people are presented. We show a great deal by what we put on our bodies.

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.

We have something very valuable, for which we have not yet found an application in this life

All free men wherever they may live are citizens of Berlin. And therefore as a free man I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'

The worst part about cancer isn't what it does to you, but what it does to the people you love.

Our self-trust is such a subtle thing that it still comes around whispering to us even after we are sure it is gone.

Only the strong survive.

If you're an independent, you don't get on TV. And in the rare instances that you do get on, you get a fraction of what that very same movie would get if it came in through Fox or Viacom.

Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.

Choose a book, ... Any book. Bring it here, and I'll show you what else the world can offer.

It's not tipping I believe in. It's overtipping.

Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you're talking about an actor's TV series, you say, "I loved you last night." And they go, "What about the week before?" They immediately worry.