When you become famous you get to torture a higher class of man than before.

I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.

I don't believe makeup and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experience.

Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.

The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.

We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group.

To really achieve any level of greatness, you have to be willing to say yes no matter who says no, and to say no no matter who says yes.

Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence.

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.

I'm very old-fashioned. Occasionally I do wear underwear.

Never, my little one, hide anything from those that love you. Never let anything that makes itself a nest in your heart, grow into a secret, for then at once it will begin to eat a hole in it.

Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it.

They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.

When a man is in love very little is enough to throw him into despair and as little to enhance his joy to the utmost.

I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.

I look at raising funds for The Perlman Music Program as a challenge and as a way to provide opportunities for people who care about the future of classical music.

The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.

Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease

If you were a woman, all I'd have to say is 'Colin Firth in a wet shirt' and you'd say 'Ah.