We spent days and weeks doing nothing, calling one another ten times a day to schedule our nothing-doing.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.

(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)

Whitney Houston’s cover of “I Will Always Love You” was constantly on my FM Walkman radio around that time. I think that made me cry because I associated it with absolutely no one.

You all watched a sketch about feminism and you didn't even know it because of all the jokes. It's like when Jessica Seinfeld puts spinach in kids' brownies. Suckers!

Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.

Don't hire anyone you wouldn't want to run into in the hallway at three in the morning.

Was it too much to expect the rest of the world to care about grammar or pay attention to details?

I have one top-notch baby with whom I am in love. It's a head-over-heels "first love" kind of thing, because I pay for everything and all we do is hold hands.

Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

We need to do a better job of understanding what the world is.

Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.

They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.

As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.

Curiosity takes courage. The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself. Pay Attention. Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.

If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic says it and you protest, people say, 'What's the matter, you can't take a joke?

Go jump off a cliff, Leah.

For me the working of hair is architecture with a human element.