So when my critics say that Sassy is only for alienated teenagers, I feel like responding, 'Well, isn't an unalienated teenager the biggest oxymoron?'

It takes a tremendous amount of passion to do innovative things every day.

Little did I know that there's nothing more competitive in the world than a professional ballroom dancer. They are as competitive as Olympic athletes.

I want to be fearless.

Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to be immortal you've got to be dead.

Sculpture is an art of the open air... I would rather have a piece of my sculpture put in a landscape, almost any landscape, than in, or on, the most beautiful building I know.

I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?

The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on the character. In Hollywood, what more can you ask for. You want a consummate professional.

Not to say "trophies" aren't wonderful, but they should not be your driving force.

The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment.

Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.