It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

I'm a believer in paying your dues.

My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.

It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.

When I wake up each morning

I'm fairly certain that YOLO is just Carpe Diem for stupid people.

What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.

What I don't like about America is not necessarily an American thing; it's a capitalist thing. This is the Vatican of capitalism.

If you let the world roll on the way it's rolling, you're voting for death. I'm not voting for death.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

You ought to pity me 'cause there's always one man to love/ But in the bedroom the size of him's more than enough.

The society girl meets more dangers than the girl on the stage. There is more danger at a tango tea than in the theatre. The actor is less dangerous than the dancing master.

It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten true.