One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality - a model, as it were, of another style of existence with its own pace and its own cultural reference.

Fiat has a lot going for it in terms of design, technology and efficiency.

In a roomful of shouting people, the one who whispers becomes interesting.

Repetition is a form of change

You always lose a lot of money chasing after women, but you will never lose a lot of women chasing after money

I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.

In some ways, I missed my era because I'm big and messy and have big feelings and take up space on a stage rather than being diminutive and childlike in my woman-ness.

The Internet knows no national borders.

What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness?

You can't always get what you want.

My films are about faith, and they're made on faith. There has to be faith because making a movie, so many things can go wrong.

I do not take drugs. I am drugs.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.