I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.

Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back since, but I was very appreciative of the experience.

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

You can never stop discovering music.

I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend.

I will sow my seed. The sacred time will determine the harvest.

When you are on top of your stuff, which on its own will secure you continuous increase

ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

I want to sing for people. I want them to have the music. It's a nice feeling.

I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.

My design has always been a derivative of people I meet. I want to translate who they are and their personality into a room.

Night is the other half of life, and the better half.

Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle.