There is nothing more important in life than love.

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.

I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth.

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.

Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

Every day is not a day to master but an adventure to experience.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.

Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother.

I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.

If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute.

I'm not a patient person.

I tell people, 'It's just like a cliche, but it's true: In Hollywood, dreams can come true.'

But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed

I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all.