Seek out a person whom you admire and respect for the support you need - that we all need from time to time.

Yes, you can have it all, but not all at the same time. Set your own priorities, trust your gut and follow your heart.

I've never owned a pair of jeans, but I had a fantastic denim boiler-suit and it got a lot of wearing.

I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?

Begun as a girl from a little country town in central western Queensland, inspired by noble ideas of justice, about fairness, about making the world a better place.

I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.

Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself.

Stick-thin, alabaster-pale Etienne LeBlanc runs down the rue de Dinan with Madame Ruelle, the baker’s wife, on his heels: the least-robust rescue ever assembled.

It’s not the situation -the action that does matter, situations produce excuses, where the actions -the results.

You've got to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

I never lost or fail, not yet conquered. If I fall seven times, I get up eight

I write the music I like. If other people like it, fine, they can go buy the albums. And if they don't like it, there's always Michael Jackson for them to listen to.

Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality

Objects of charity are not guests.

Just as good and virtue, sin and evil can only be given in vigil. Who sleeps, sleeps; for the asleep there is no sin, just as there is no good, nor virtue. There is only sleep.

It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget.

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.