Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.

Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let's dance.

You label somebody 'New Age, ' and that's automatic mockery: 'She cannot possibly be a serious thinker.'

As for movies, what's great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.

I've had several working-man songs that I like.

I have great respect for the news and great respect for freedom of the press and all of that.

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

One of the things I love most about acting is just disappearing in the role, as much as I can. I think that's one of the things that intrigued me about it.

I really do like working very closely with a director and developing characters.

Go to the poor there you will find God.

It's easy to be beautiful - just be born that way.