Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.

We need to put undercover security armed people at the curbside of the terminal with the uniform of policemen. We need to protect the terminal. We need to protect the security checkpoint, the gate, the aircraft, the perimeter.

I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.

Goals transform a random walk into a chase.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

When you're a father, you know exactly where your heart really is. There's no question of it, no doubt. That part of your life has no second guessing.

It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Music expresses longing and love and joy better than any piece of dialogue you can ever write.

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

Acting is always therapeutic.

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.

There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.

I see more people taking on the cloak of accountability, more people tiring of the blame game. If we are all connected and our actions in Australia affect us in Istanbul, then we are all to blame and all to be healers. We can't blame lawyers anymore for the 'liability' vs. common sense imbalance.

When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.

Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. Its more like a heap of stones a cairn. If someone is successful they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. Thats how I see it.

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.

I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.

Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

When I started Net-a-Porter, I knew nothing. And I was pregnant. Starting a new venture and being pregnant for the first time are pretty similar in many ways. If you knew what was going to happen to you, you wouldn't venture down that road.

My teammates have put me in all different kinds of positions to score goals, and I can't say it enough, and I really through and through believe it in my heart that I'm only as good as my teammates allow me to be.

Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

For the cynic art is defined through money. That of course is a very sad statement. But an artist is someone who does creative things.

The man who wins is the man who hangs on just five minutes longer after everyone else has quit.