Timing is everything with relationships.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.

Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back since, but I was very appreciative of the experience.

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

You can never stop discovering music.

The salt of any interesting civilization is mixture.

Most turnarounds don’t turn.

To speak another language is to have another soul

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is...

Here's hoping that your special day Will be more 'happy ever after' With all the joys of friendship, Love, fun and laughter

Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

I used to be a jazz snob, believe it or not. I sort of turned my nose up at anything more commercial.

A couple hundred people around, and I'm shaking.

Let us agree not to step on each other’s feet.