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 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 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!

To embody a character, you have to lose all judgment about them.

As for time, all men have it in abundance.

Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

For me it was never about money, but solving problems for the future of humanity.

You know, running a restaurant is something you have to be working at each and every day; it's not a foregone conclusion that you're a success.

It is the customer that pays the wages

If you want to make god laugh, make a plan.

Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel.

Many times during auditions, I was told that I couldn't carry a note with a bucket, and that I sure couldn't play the piano.

You must make the product interesting, not just make the ad different.