The more you’re writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it’s at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.

I listen to a variety of music. The only common point is strong lyrics; I'm more obsessed with lyrics than music. I need to hear a form of truth, and if it's a hard truth, even better.

In England you laugh at yourselves, in France we laugh at others.

The whole point of art school is that you're going to be able to have nudes all day long and a teacher who is there to move you. It's great.

I think I was pretty much hated in France. The French press ignored me. There was a movement when the children of celebrities faced strong animosity.

I'm a very compulsive person, so I spend most of my time drawing or writing my diary, patching things up and carving bits of wood - I've carved two of my guitars.

I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.

It is impossible for me to get involved in films that I don't like, so I just wait for a project that really tickles my fancy.

There's something I find highly embarrassing about it. As soon as I think I've written something smart, the next day I've got nausea, thinking, "Don't even try to be smart, it's absurd."

I was always the funny-looking girl. I couldn't compete with the Brazilian girls. My nose is off, my ears are too big. But I think it's my personality that these designers were drawn to.

I love acting; I love movie sets and movies, but, at the same time, there's something about the position of women in that world that frightens me a lot. I find it nearly inhuman to be an actress.

We don't teach flowers to bloom

Difficult People? I don't really know. I don't have those metrics.

The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

Christ in this country would quite likely have been arrested under the Suppression of Communism act.

I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.

The way to become happy Is to think And to feel That the very best is yet to come.

We'll be getting new health insurance and we'll presumably do it through my job with the Senate, and so we'll be on the federal exchange with millions of others on the federal exchange.

Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon

The proof of my Jewishness is that iniquities done by Israel pain me much more than iniquities perpetrated by any other country.