If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.

If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.

All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

A great wind is blowing and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

I am strong and healthy.

There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it's a wonderful business but it's make-believe, you must remember that. That's one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy.

I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.

This is what an animal rights philosophy is really about. Understanding the importance of recognizing that all animals have an inherent right not to be abused by us and then following the ethical path this understanding leads us to is special indeed.

Theres nothing more vital to the bond you share with someone than simply being there for them.

I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.

I have a lot of tattoos. I probably have over 100 tattoos. I don't know. It's just a mural... a collage.

I want to become the ultimate centre forward. I want to be able to play on the left, on the right, and down the middle.

Actors will say 'yes' to anything.

I am not a crook.

I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.

I always thought of the English landscape as being English gardens.

I'd be just as happy being a midwife. That's my ideal job.

I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'

China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.

So that when I came from Panama... my family was exiled in 1973 and they went to Miami.

Singing is definitely not my forte. I'll put that out there on the record.

The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.

Walt Disney had a nuclear imagination before the advent of nuclear, some comprehension of apocalypse and rapture deep in his genes.

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

I get so bummed when I have to return the clothes I'm lent. It's easy to feel so special, but like Cinderella, you lose your shoes.

I think the U.K. would be perfectly successful as a standalone country, part of the European marketplace like Norway and Switzerland but without the expensive E.U. bureaucracy.