There's not a second I regret having a child on my own.

My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it's cousins or stepmothers or boyfriends. My son is surrounded by love.

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.

All of a sudden, you have this newborn you have no training for. It's frightening.

Are you trying to manipulate me? It's working.

I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserve success. I have the drive to work.

I miss the noise in New York: the sound of taxis and that constant buzz the city has.

I have become that mother I used to dread.

Everyone says, 'You give birth, you go home, and you have this amazing baby and it's just beautiful'. And I walked in and I just started sobbing.

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

But now I have a child, and it's the best thing in the world.

If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!

If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, youre wasting it.

Review your list as often as you need to get them off your mind.

I'm sure that if Plato hadn't been against music with a strong sexual beat, Bloom would have kept quiet about rock-and-roll.

From the Far Eastern perspective, 29 is considered a very special age.

I dont watch TV. I dont use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.

While acting is what I do for a living, activism is what I do to stay alive.

Virtue can have naught to do with ease. . . . It craves a steep and thorny path.

When I see the poor in India, it reminds me of the work that I have to do for them.

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.