We had this scene where I'm supposed to be bending over to get something. I thought it was kind of cute.

I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize.

I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.

Throw in the humor, throw in that personality, try things you wouldn't normally try.

I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person.

The question is a curious collection of words.

Every moment of the nightForever changing placesAnd they put out the star-lightWith the breath from their pale faces

Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.

One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.

To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.

Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework.

The sun has not yet set for all time.

Every government, from the Obama administration right through to Angela Merkel, the Eurozone and the IMF, promise to save the banks, not the economy.

O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.

Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.