I don't need a psychiatrist. I'm Catholic.

Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.

I don't need a psychiatrist. I'm Catholic.

Things said to a reporter in confidence should be kept in confidence.

Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think.

Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it.

My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!

I'm off to race around the world - a race against time and two men. I know I can beat time. I hope I can beat the men.

I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.

I am not a grammarian. Maybe my style is eccentric.

Why can't I be the adorable one?

I think sometimes it is more important to be gracious than to win.

President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.

We have a normal. As you move outside of your comfort zone what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.

I was brought up bilingual, but there came a point where my mom went back to work and I got a white babysitter, so sadly I lost it. Now I can understand Spanish and put words together, but I don't speak it fluently. I'm ashamed of that.

Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.

I went to New York for a while before I moved to L.A., and I was very clear that I didn't want to do TV. For a decade, basically, I didn't even entertain the idea.

I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads.

I've been fortunate when in government to have a car at my disposal, which takes away the nightmare of getting a taxi.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

When the season ends, I like to take a little time off from the diet I follow when I'm playing.

Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reach a point where you feel you have said all you possibly can, in reportage or a review essay or a reflection on history, which 'From the Ruins of Empire' was.

Everyone's favorite breakfast dish can be prepared in a moment's time with just a few ingredients and minimum effort.

And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

I came across this circumstance of undocumented students. These are kids who were brought to this country as youngsters, who are raised as Americans and go to American schools, and then when they graduate high school, they have no prospects in front of them because they are undocumented and illegally in the United States.

She can kill with a smile. She can wound with her eyes. She can ruin your faith with her casual lies. And she only reveals what she wants you to see. She hides like a child but shes always a woman to me.

In reading a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.

Birds of a feather flock together.

I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus.

Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself.

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

It's about getting the kids up and fed, getting one to school, getting the other down for a nap, going to the grocery store, picking one up from school, getting the other one down for another nap, cooking dinner... I live my life at these two extremes. I'm either a full-time stay-at-home mom or a full-time actress.

I don't think I've got the stuff that Broadway musicals are made of. But there are definitely many musicals that I enjoy. 'Hair' and 'Rent' might be my favorites.

I realized I was never going to be a nationally recognized painter but that I could set the goal of being a successful regional painter.

The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.

I'm good at keeping secrets. My friends always tell me their secrets because I keep them well.