Ethical systems and practices need to look good. They have to be desirable, well-designed and work well.

I think winter wear is communal. You get some gloves and a scarf from a lost-and-found box, wash them, wear them for a while until you lose them. Then somebody else does the same thing

You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there.

What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're like Siamese twins, if you separate us, I'll die.

I don't like putting people on a pedestal, I think ideas are more exciting

When I feel myself getting overwhelmed, I take a deep breath and eat a piece of chocolate.

I think, in a lot of ways, celebrities represent the American dream. They have financial fluidity and options at their disposal.

When you are dealing with real life, there is no way to control it.

I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz, but the root of my happiness comes from my neighborhood, NYC.

Oh, miraculous chameleon, science, who can reverse your doctrine hourly and never shake our faith! What cult ever battered by this world of doubt can help but envy you?

We all have an artistic side that we have to express if we want to live a life that feels whole.

What criterion ought one to adopt to judge one's fellows? After all, there was not a single person he knew who might not, in certain circumstances, prove capable of a shameful action.

Don’t wait for miracles but believe and be so strong enough in invisible virtues like faithfulness.

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

A great singer has to learn how to inhabit a song.

No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God.

Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side.

I've learned I'm not lying by not saying anything, so I just don't say it anymore.

I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.