Like Ivan [Reitman] has said, there's a lot that a life encompasses.

Loving someone is giving them the power to break your heart, but trusting them not to.

Air pollution is terrible for our children. Every single scientist, every single doctor will tell you the same thing: Air pollution damages our children’s brains, their hearts, and their lungs.

I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.

Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about.

We impose order and narrative on everything in order to understand it. Otherwise, there's nothing but chaos.

The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

If you're 50, you're never going to be 50 ever again, so enjoy being 50. If you sit through the year wishing you were younger, before you know it, it's going to be over, and you're going to be 51.

We have to work for a living, but it is your life, so make sure you find something that you enjoy doing and people that you enjoy doing it with. Then, hopefully, you'll have a happy life.

I've heard it said that winning an Oscar means you live five years longer. If that's true I want to thank the academy because my husband is younger than me.

People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.

Poverty would always exist when we allow injustices to speak.

Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?

We ignore the Holy Spirit when we position ourselves at the center of life. - From the Book: Removing Your Shame Label.

To me, my brand is luxury, it's art, it's women, it's raw, it's urban.

We should all relax about life because you don't have a clue as to what's really going on.

In America everything's about who's number one today.

If it works, it's out of date.

If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present.

The original vocals had an awful lot of work put into them at the time, and I wasn't really sure that I could better them - I don't know if I have bettered them.

To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.