Once I caught my dad in front of the TV watching a tennis match, and I realized they were tricking us. Poor guy, he had to sneak in a tennis final - probably the French Open.

I think denim is something everyone feels comfortable in. It's kind of my uniform, really.

I actually don't trust anyone who tells me they don't like New York.

I believe you have to make things happen.

I think it's too bad when teenagers become conformist in terms of fashion,because it's the ideal time to go off into your own crazy thing without looking completely idiotic.

I think the people we meet in life and the loves of our lives are very, very important in what we become, like change us - when it's right, probably change us for the best.

You have to encourage people not to give in to the temptation to be normal, even if it isn't easy - because when you're young, you really want to belong.

In Los Angeles, you feel like everything revolves around the movies. In Paris, you still have other things to do.

I'm never anywhere for more than three weeks.

I used to spend hours at night, downstairs, in front of the only full-length mirror in the house, standing on the table working out what I would wear to school the next day.

I realised that since I was a child I wanted to be an actress just to dress up in big fabrics and corsets and have adventures riding horses with lots of blood and action!

Global betterment is a mental process, not one that requires huge sums of money or a high level of authority. Change has to be psychological.

It is not where one is, but in what direction he is going.

To a writer, an open browser tab is like a glass of whiskey. 1 or 2 can help the work. Too many ensures that nothing gets done.

When you're not putting a bunch of chemicals into everbody, people tend not to fly off the handle.

It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had then, in the mid-1950s, when the noise outside the window was mostly wind and sea chime.

I love fried okra. The fact that it's okra makes me feel like it's good for you - I forget the fact that it's fried.

Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about.

You might be a redneck if your wheelbarrow breaks and it takes four relatives to figure out how to fix it.

This is the worst drug epidemic I've seen in my lifetime.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.