The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation.

J. Lo, whether she is good or bad, is like a fiery movie star, a throwback to Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday.

I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.

I want everybody who is watching to come to the Academy Awards with us. I'm going to pay for the bus.

I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been changing it, and Will Smith has been doing it in his own way.

On the red carpet, I saw all these great stories, and I also got to see the plastic surgery up close.

I am a child of Hollywood and dreams. To me, to be on the red carpet is the best place in the world.

In the last couple of years, fashion's gotten a lot safer. People are really pulling back.

Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.

Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get the best sound bites from Courtney Love.

You're surfing with all this glamour, and a lot of people are talking about Gwyneth, JLo, and Cameron.

Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.

Can compromise be an art? Yes--but a minor art.

Become 'tested' in such a way that not a single word in this world can shake you up.

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.

In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life.

If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?

The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.

Civilization itself . . . can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused.

I'm not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.