I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

I'm fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it's about immediate delivery. There's less risk and less art.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done.

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

I like someone who's suffered from both sides.

Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.

More yoga in the world is what we need.

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.

For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.

I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.

I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.

Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.

To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with.

When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.

You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you.

Thats why they call it work because its not what youd prefer to do with your free time.

The potential hot tomato of today can turn into the cold pop tart of tomorrow, and I know that.

The bronze powder business, however, no longer required my personal attention, and was well managed by those I had chosen as the guardians of a secret, which was long and honourably kept.

The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy.

The constant attention is what is so difficult.

As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.

Anytime you have a difficult encounter with your child, there is a good chance that at least one of these factors is bringing out the worst in him or her: transitions, time pressure, competition for your attention, conflicting objectives.

I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.

I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

There's a lot of other movies I like, but I don't even pay attention to directors to tell you the truth.

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.

The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium.

Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.

They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.