We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

Yeah I got a question: Any more excuses tonight, Roy?

The master of your body did not run off and leave you masterless.

Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

It's magic. All of a sudden, the idea just pops up. Who knows how?

The reason so many celebrities try to keep things secret is you want the chance to get to know someone without the glare of public scrutiny.

80% of Italian cooking is done in a sauté pan.

I don't know about you, but I can tell when someone's lying. They can't look you in the eye - they look you in the bridge of your nose.

These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.

If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals.