We had an apartment on west side of Central Park. The rent was very reasonable. We found out later that it belonged to a gangster called Legs Diamond and it was a front to his headquarters. It was fine.

If I had my career over again? Maybe I'd say to myself, speed it up a little.

When it came to kissing, Harlow was the best.

Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell you?' So I went over and we sat down and he said, 'This picture starts in heaven'. That shook me.

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.

It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all.

I always watch Dean Martin's show... just to see if he falls down.

I sort of got into Westerns... It was a sort of desperation move, really. I had several pictures that didn't go very well, and I just realised that I would have to try something else.

I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.

We had an apartment on west side of Central Park. The rent was very reasonable. We found out later that it belonged to a gangster called Legs Diamond and it was a front to his headquarters. It was fine.

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.

I lasted one night. They said my playing spoiled people's appetites.

I'd like to do Harvey again. I did it two years ago with Helen Hayes in New York. It was a joy. I was so glad to do it again because I never thought I did it right the first time.

One time they traded me for seven horses. Seven stunt horses.

Fear is an insidious and deadly thing. It can warp judgment freeze reflexes breed mistakes. Worse its contagious.

Multicultural societies are multi-conflict societies.

I had my hustle. It was whatever I could do to not end up working in a factory. If I had to shake it like a showgirl, I was going to do it.

I understand about this idea of terror and what it means to Americans and this idea that we can't just walk around free like we did; life has changed.

It just comes kind of naturally to me to take something and try and make it relatable and interesting to someone who doesn't know everything about skating.

When someone says, 'I trusted you,' the phrase is loaded with all the actions that came from that trust: the person comes almost to embody trust, just as anyone who's always hustling can only be called a hustler.

The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable.

To have a vision for your life is to see where you could be, not where you are now.

When I was a kid, everywhere I went people said I should be a model, but I was more into skateboarding.

Prison opened my eyes to so many things. It was a great time. I met interesting people. I got to understand the behaviour of the police and the media. I am an observer of the human race.

I'm not here just to walk two rounds or four rounds and just show up. I want to be able to be competitive, and I truly believe I can still be competitive when I'm playing well and feeling good.

The tormenting dilemma of the Middle East is this: either we have one people too many, or one state too few.

Vanity is as old as the mammoth.

Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to know what's under there, the bedrock.

If you're the CEO of a publicly traded company, you're worried about quarterly returns.

What's the most fetching thing that provokes people? A volcano? Fountains that dance? A pirate ship that sinks? Some other animated device or presentation? Is that as strong as mystery? Allure, intrigue, is much more powerful... It taunts you.

I held down as many jobs as I could find, from being a waiter to working at a yoga studio and as a ticket-taker at a small theater company - anything that would allow me to go out and do auditions.

I kind of love coming home and being with family and feeling comfortable and knowing where I come from I kind of like it.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

I tell people I never got to hear Dylan Thomas read because my husband wouldn't let me, because he thought it would be a sort of bad influence. People say, 'And you didn't go?' They're so surprised because the me they know would have gone. And I say I was very much a 'yes, dear' wife.

I always tried to hide the fact that I was an athlete. I just wanted to be normal.

What you're seeing is tension that we've seen for years between President Erdogan and his military, his military being more secular, President Erdogan being a little more in the Islamist side of the house.

I was the classic liberal, left-wing, 'Theater is going to change the world' kind of person. You know, very, very boring.

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

Escapism is survival to me.