My motto - sans limites.

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

My motto - sans limites.

With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.

It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly the same.

Green roofs, roadside plantings, porous pavement, and sidewalk gardens have been proven to reduce flooding. They absorb rainwater before it swamps the streets and sewage systems.

He was like, 'I want to get in the studio with you.' Who turns down Pharrell?

For all of life's discontents, according to the pharmaceutical industry, there is a drug and you should take it. Then for the side effects of that drug, then there's another drug, and so on. So we're all taking more drugs, and more expensive drugs.

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate apparently ordinary people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

Food compulsion isn't a character disorder; it's a chemical disorder.

I can't imagine having long hair anymore; it's weird.

My feet are dogs.

I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds.

In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own belief in Catholic dogma had been shaken and weakened, I found that the beauty and the richness of the art still held me.

I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.

Everyone has an hour in their day to go and do something for somebody else; I don't care how busy they are.

I never wanted anyone's pity.

I usually like whatever I've recently finished best.

I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.

The recycling in my house was imposed by my kids.

When I left Yale, I was prepared to write anything.

I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.

No, as an artist, you have to be free to explore all the corners of your heart. There are no boundaries.

When a couple of young people strongly devoted to each other commence to eat onions it is safe to pronounce them engaged.

Accents are very sexy. American girls who speak French are very attractive to a Frenchman. Anything exotic or different is attractive.

I want to be elected on my own ability. Only then do you have progress... People should not use race as a basis for labelling me.

The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.

The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.'

Women rule men's lives - every decision a man makes is based on a woman.