The curse of imagination is picturing the world as it should be.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

Whenever I see an ambulance, I like to think there is a baby being born, rather than a death.

Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.

The salvation of man is through love and in love

Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked. It becomes as shallow and empty as, let us say, an American flirtation.

I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they'd arrest you for crimes against acting.

He who believes in goodness has the essence of all faith. He is a man of cheerful yesterdays and confident to-morrows.

I'm a video game fan. I played them before I became an actress.

When you start a game, you don't think to yourself, "well, OK, I'm going throw a one-hitter today." It just becomes an organism, your outing becomes an organism and it grows.

Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions.

I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.