You have to believe. You have to stick to your guns.

I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity.

You have to believe. You have to stick to your guns.

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.

Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man.

You know why I don't like that camera? Because it prevents me from seeing you!

To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.

It has nothing to do with commercial success. You cannot calculate in your head how to put the mosaic together to make a commercial film: that's out of the question.

I always dreamed when I was a little girl interested in animals that I would go live in Africa. Then I found out that you can look in your backyard, and you can do your own safari.

All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.

This is a very screwed-up business. Record labels don't sign a lot of bands these days. We just want to find a home and stay there and make records and do our thing and not have to look over our shoulder.

Not everyone in Santa Monica is a well-heeled, juice-cleansing, Prius-driving yogini, but for better or worse, that is the city's dominant chord.

Our great history has been that people came to Michigan because you didn't have to have a college degree to get a good-paying job. Consequently, we have got a larger number of our population that right now are facing outsourcing, et cetera, without higher or advanced degrees.

I've succeeded at everything except my life.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

I wear my dad's cross. It's very important to me. I hang it in my locker before each game.

Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.

I'd like Americans to save their money, and not get taxed on their savings.

The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there's a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu.

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

I'm an utterly average, total geek.

My favorite day is relaxing at home with family and friends.

I think there are very few brands with a person's point of view behind them.

As a child, I'd help my mum cook, and it was ridiculous - she had the correct gadget or utensil for everything. 'Stop! Don't use that, I have exactly the right utensil.' After I left home, I survived on cup-a-meals and never saw myself as being like her. Now I've become her.

It wasn't like I picked a camera up in 1989 and stopped making music. I picked a camera up and found another form of expression.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

When you start performing, you realize that you have to separate yourself from the pack. So I would never wear bell-bottoms, which everybody else was wearing. I had short hair - and to see a 21-year-old guy walk onstage without longish hair was, in itself, weird. Every entertainer needs a shtick.

I feel I'm entitled to make my own decision.

If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it you can become it.

Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.