The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

If only these walls could talk…the world would know just how hard it is to tell the truth in a story in which everyone’s a liar.

When you are happy for other people's dreams, your dreams start jumping up with joy. Elizabeth was happy with Mary and her dream baby was jumping in her womb crazily for joy!

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.

When you enter a casino, remember that you are entering a place of business run by very shrewd business people who understand human emotions.

As far as actresses go, I love Meryl Streep.

I'd feel a little bit dead inside, if I didn't have dancing. It's such a way of expression and exercise and life and love. You laugh, when you're being corny and dorky-dancing. It's everything.

kazehaya-kun has given me a lot of FIRSTS

Today, I will focus on what's right about me. I will give myself some of the caring I've extended to the world.

When I was a child... I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, 'Momma, do we believe in winter?'

I did not know that [ the Chancellor Angela Merkel is a bit frightened of dogs]. I wanted to make her happy. When I learned that she does not like dogs, I apologized, of course.