I have a lot of respect and admiration for someone like Cate Blanchett, find Emma Thompson wonderful, Meryl Streep inspiring, Juliette Binoche full of light and Catherine Deneuve incredible.

I think denim is something everyone feels comfortable in. It's kind of my uniform, really.

I actually don't trust anyone who tells me they don't like New York.

I believe you have to make things happen.

I think it's too bad when teenagers become conformist in terms of fashion,because it's the ideal time to go off into your own crazy thing without looking completely idiotic.

I think the people we meet in life and the loves of our lives are very, very important in what we become, like change us - when it's right, probably change us for the best.

You have to encourage people not to give in to the temptation to be normal, even if it isn't easy - because when you're young, you really want to belong.

In Los Angeles, you feel like everything revolves around the movies. In Paris, you still have other things to do.

I'm never anywhere for more than three weeks.

I used to spend hours at night, downstairs, in front of the only full-length mirror in the house, standing on the table working out what I would wear to school the next day.

I realised that since I was a child I wanted to be an actress just to dress up in big fabrics and corsets and have adventures riding horses with lots of blood and action!

Wisdom gives you the ability to chose what is right.In the darkness of hate and ignorance, it is the light.

It is a good idea for everyone who does not have contra-indications to receive a flu shot.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

I am endorsed by some of the greatest business people in the world.

I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire. [I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heir.]

We have to re-invent socialism. It can't be the kind of socialism that we saw in the Soviet Union, but it will emerge as we develop new systems that are built on cooperation, not competition.

I've always been curious about the monster that lives under your bed. Even at 30 years old you lean over the bed to see if there's something under there, potentially.

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

I have never asked a prime minister for anything.