Fans want you to be something super-human, something that's impossible for any human being to be.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

I'm an experienced woman; I've been around. ... Well, all right, I might not've been around, but I've been ... nearby.

Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow.

Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.

Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.

I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts.

The loving are the daring.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

I've always heard that women secretly want their father. So I used to walk around in a 1950s business suit, with a hat and a pipe. My opening line would be, 'You should be getting to bed now.'

Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

I look for things that are going to challenge me as an actor.

I personally have a major weakness for guys that use musky smelling cologne.

I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

In Nietzsche's view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic character of what happens in Occidental history.

It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.

I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.