Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

The brain may take advice, but not the heart.

Life with through punches at you and sometimes knock you down. Learn to take the hit, but more importantly learn to get back up and keep punching every single day!

That's why I have to be a fiction writer, because I can't remember what just happened or where I went last week or what movie I just watched with my husband. I'm better off just making things up.

Curators are great, but they're inherently biased. Curators are always making an editorial decision. Those biases have really big implications.

I like to imagine, if I was in the 1930s and was rich and a psychopathic killer, I probably would be moving about very freely and having a lot of fun.

I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.

In my films that I've directed, and my work in commercials and videos, I've rarely used handheld. It's just not something I'm drawn to, but I've seen it done very well.

I work hard, like I'm sure everyone else does, and I'm very honest with the work I do.

Discipline is creating the situation.

I'm English, definitely. I don't feel like I'm American in any way.

White Collar' is a show about the unlikely pairing of an FBI agent and an ex-con solving smart, glamorous, interesting and provocative crimes in a sometimes very funny way.