You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.

You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

When we had highly sensitive information, the DNA on the dress, that was held within our office and the FBI. There was no dissemination of that information.

Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.

I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery.

Unfornately some family members are so pychotic that no matter how hard you try to forge a healthy relationship nothing will help. Now that youre an adult take refuge in the fact that some things are beyond your control. You owe it to yourself to steer clear of people who are harmful to your health.

The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

My mum is the funniest and sweetest person I know; my sister's like my best friend, so it's great having them around.

I am truly happy with what I've got. But if I could alter something, it would be my hands. I've never been satisfied with them - I would love longer fingers.

From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

I think the rejection - if it's taken in the right spirit, it can make you a better person. And I think that is what I've always striven for. If one thing didn't work out, a project or anything, it doesn't mean that I lose my own confidence. In fact, I give myself a lot more confidence and opportunities.

I like it when someone tells me 'I don't agree.' This is a true collaborator. When they say 'Oh, how great, how great, how great,' that's not useful.

I have never run a public company. I spent my entire life working for a private company.

When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise.

To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.

Sometimes we dont realize the blessings we have until we no longer have them. Appreciate all the blessings in your life take none for granted.

I am not a brave man... I do not have the right stuff. Astronauts are really a cut above.

There are a lot of people on Instagram desperately trying to keep up with the Joneses.

I play a huge variety of roles.

Nobody took you out for lunch when I started. Carla Bruni took me out for lunch once. She was really nice. Otherwise, you don't get fed.