There's a fine line between being private and being ashamed.

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone's critiquing.

Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.

And I somehow always felt less lonely when I was completely alone.

Most important, in order to find real happiness, you must learn to love yourself for the totality of who you are and not just what you look like.

My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me.

True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.

Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.

I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn't right for me.

If you've looked at all the glamour magazines lately, all the covers are actresses. If they are on those covers, they are going to try to emulate models. That's just the way it is.

A friend with seed (capital), is a business-man in deed.

Historically, the coupling of president and Speaker has been a tricky one that encourages a choreography both quick-footed and wary

Hate does that. Burns off everything but itself, so whatever your grievance is, your face looks just like your enemy's.

Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.

You know what I hate about working? Bosses...The very idea that ANYONE could be my boss, well...I think you see the conflict.

When California provides the same value as other locations, I'd gladly shoot all my pictures here.

The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler.

Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.

Without the heart it is no worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really which is acted by us: a hypocrite, in the notion of the word, is a stageplayer.