I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.

Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.

You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

I never go straight to the point if I can go the most difficult way. Why be simple when you can be complicated?

I like the idea that I'm making things that people might think and argue about.

We all come in different shapes and sizes, and that's fine by me.

I'm very wary of trust, you see.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Marriage is a lot like a roller coaster. You have extreme highs and you can have some pretty extreme lows, but the ride is worth it.

Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?

No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.

I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

It's all right to pull the cow out of the mud on Sunday, provided that you don't push him in on Saturday night.

I certainly had no idea how little faith Christians have in their own faith till I saw how ill their courage and temper can stand any attack on it.

In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.