The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It's all about the directors.

Success takes communication, collaboration and, sometimes, failure.

Find your passion and do it totally. The more life experience you get, the better you'll be at whatever you want to do.

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

You have to be tenacious, you have to be focused, you have to have a real vision, and be extremely passionate about it.

The secret to using power is not to use it. Just having it is enough.

I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.

I could have sexual chemistry with vinegar.

I'm much more of a risk taker. I'm more fearless now than when I was 18. I was much more self-aware and I cared too much about what people thought of me and now I really don't. I probably should.

Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work and patience.

Being perfect is being flawed, accepting it, and never letting it make you feel less than your best.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

...I didn't want you flawless - I have a bare wall at home that's flawless - I wanted your character trapped in the amber of your skin...

My mother agreed to aid my abuse of alcohol but only if I promised never to tell my newly converted Mormon sister, whose identity I had stolen.

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day's experience.

Novel writing should never be confused with journalism. Unfortunately, in the case of Primary Colors, a fair number of journalists confused.

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt. By living every golden minute as if one had all Eternity.

Music doesn't have to be so rule-based - and so strict in its structures, construction and perception.

... now I was safe, now I was really crazy, and nobody could take me out of there.