The happiness of others is never bearable for very long.

Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.

I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Art must take reality by surprise.

For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.

I always believe things are going to work out.

The lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.

I need to learn to stay away from those who want to steal my heart and replace it with steel.

Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.

Nature utters her voice in lessons of heavenly wisdom and eternal truth.

I feel like I'm a good motivator; I'm very determined.

I don't want to just be an artist for one country, I want to produce for the world.

It isn't difficult to leave King Lear or Macbeth, but once you have gone back to yourself, you want it to be the same self you have always been.