I do say no to things that I think are completely gratuitous.

If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.

We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.

Sometimes it feels like it hurts when you make a big purchase, so I really believe that the more expensive things should be gems that you keep in your closet, not trends.

Modeling isn't boring.

Women can be strong, be smart, be sexy, be mothers, be wives, and be powerful. We don't need to compromise.

It is in the mind and the heart where we meet. It's not the body-the body will change.

I realized that being present for loved ones who are dying or aging is one of the greatest honors and gifts in my life. We are quite small in the big scheme of things.

Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.

Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!

More than anything, it's my son's smile and love that makes me light up!

Respect is priceless. Earn it every day!

For a moment, just be silent and feel the joy of life.

I believe that life is given us so that we may grow in love and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower.

If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet.

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

[Preparing for award shows] gets insane. The dress, the hair, the makeup...I end up always picking the dress at the last second.

Men gossip for just as long and about the same subjects as women, but tend to talk more about themselves.

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

L. A. is crazy. The women all look the same now. That thing with the cheeks. Like Madonna. Who do they think they're fooling? It doesn't make them look young. You end up looking like a freak.

The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis.