Wise is the woman who rises above her circumstances.

History provides a great example but a terrible excuse.

There you are. A simple commandment. Not ten of them, just one: 'Thou shalt not eat.' (Personally, I wish the very first edict from God hadn't involved dieting, don't you?)

In every life story, including our own, decisions are made in haste that determine the course of eternity.

We all know we're going to die

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

Gossip and drama are different stages of the same intoxication… the first is the buzz

Loyalty in a critic is corruption.

I am alone. There is no God where I am.

I'm always looking for inspiration.

I realized that I needed to know more about the business side of things. I don't like feeling uneducated about things, and feeling uneducated about my own business felt ridiculous.

Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.

I'd done "Gosford Park," a film that Julian Fellowes had written that Robert Altman directed.

You need to be a little crazy to change the world, and you can’t really fake it.