If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.

Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them.

I married a wonderful doctor, and I was very happy - period.

I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.

I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.

It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.

It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.

If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.

Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.

It matters more whats in a womans face than whats on it.

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well They have the same enemy the mother.

Revenge is a caustic thing. I say, Breathe in, breathe deeply, let it go.

When I wrote 'Noughts and Crosses', I was halfway through it when I realised this was very like 'Romeo and Juliet'... as long as you make it your own, and put your own spin on it, I think it's brilliant to use other great work to find your own voice.

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

I do not separate France from Europe.

If you're into a certain band, you're into the way they dress.

We live in an unsafe world.

When I think about my career, my successes are built on learning from failures.

I studied the philosophy and the discipline of non-violence in Nashville as a student. And I staged a sitting-in in the fall of 1959 and got arrested the first time in February 1960.

What I've realized, and had to become comfortable with, is that I'm just, I don't think, a star. I'm an actor.

A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.

In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing their programs, putting them forth, insisting that their representatives implement those programs.

In normal times, investors should pay more attention to the credit markets because it's the energy by which everything is driven. It's the oil in the engine.

If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.

My mother became a casting director, and she cast me in a soap opera called 'One Life to Live.' I was, like, 8 years old, playing a kid who had hurt himself on a skateboard. I had, like, three lines. I did the lines, and everybody in the studio applauded - I was immediately hooked after that. I was like, 'This is the life for me.'

It's easy to be a spokesman and ambassador for a great organization like the NBA. I thank Commissioner David Stern for putting that trust in me to serve the NBA around the globe.

I spent my childhood watching every scary movie that Hollywood ever made. And I think that gave me the best education for storytelling. It also made me want to reproduce the scary moments that I felt, sitting in a theater at the age of 5.

I would never know how good I was if I didn't have Bob Arum. Bob Arum is white, Jewish; He was working for prosecutor's office. I'm black, an ex-convict, ex-number runner. Who would be most likely to succeed? It would be Bob 100-1. Yet I beat Bob on everything we ever done, with love.

We have to realize we are building a movement.

At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I realized 'Girl in a Country Song' was an honest, truthful song, and we were telling our truth, and that's all we have to do - write songs that are true and tell our stories.

You don't fix the problem until you define it.

I'm single and looking and failing miserably. I'm keeping my options open.

Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.

My dad's my best mate, and he always will be.