Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite.

Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do.

In the long run, all I care about is making good music & not wasting time being in the public eye.

It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.

Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told

I don't believe in God now. I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience.

People are suspect because they believe your ideology blinds you to equal application of the law, and the facts.

I'm an actress who likes a strong, communicative director.

I prepare myself in the summer to play 48 minutes. It's not a logical goal, but that's the way I prepare.

India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.