Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

What is necessary when we want to face reality? Stillness.

The solution to Iraq - an Iraq that can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself - is more than a military mission. Precisely the reason why I sent more troops into Baghdad.

I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.

I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.

I keep my clocks a little fast / so time won't take me by surprise.

Do not store in your brain useless information. Learn to unmind the mind. Unlearn whatever has been of no use to you. Then only can you fill your mind with divine thoughts.

And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women? Ever think of that?

As a Muslim woman, I’ve been liberated from a silent kind of bondage. I don’t answer to the slaves of God on earth. I answer to their King.