You can't make a souffle rise twice.

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.

You can't make a souffle rise twice.

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.

He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.

The ambition of 'Ten Thousand Saints,' Eleanor Henderson's debut novel about a group of unambitious lost souls, is beautiful. In nearly 400 pages, Henderson does not hold back once: she writes the hell out of every moment, every scene, every perspective, every fleeting impression, every impulse and desire and bit of emotional detritus.

My older brothers and sisters have kids and families.

When you're feeling very comfortable with an actor, you are doing nothing.

Most of the time I like to start an album abroad, not at home, just to avoid the pressure, to not wake up and think, 'OK, it's the first of recording this album.' I like to avoid that.

Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

I've been so blessed to have the opportunities that I've had.

After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country.

Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know that in a universe so full of wonders they have managed to invent boredom.

When you enjoy what you do, work becomes play.

Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home.

I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.

When you become a television personality, it's difficult to maintain your musical credibility.

Believing youre something that youre not excites the mind and the imagination. And its hopeful.

Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.

My mother was a medical records librarian and wonderful with us girls. She sewed a lot of our clothes - really glamorous, beautiful clothes - and I think that's part of why I was so successful when I went off to Paris; she'd made me all these wonderful clothes to take.

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

Cooking today is a young man's game, I don't give a bollocks what anyone says.

To demand more of yourself than you do of others is the first step on any ladder of success.

With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the prestige of being an anchor is not what it was in the days of Walter Cronkite.

If you told me tomorrow that I couldn't act anymore, it wouldn't bother me. I have only one wish: to meet the man of my life.

Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.

I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.