Wilshire Boulevard... It has no smell to it.

Wilshire Boulevard... It has no smell to it.

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal

Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women.

Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we're often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both.

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

The potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn't quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my music the way I knew it needed to be made.

I'm not too interested in books about India.

When you have 20 nominations - 20 names on the nomination list of best actor, supporting actor and actress, etc., and there's absolutely no representation of color whatsoever, I think that's a subset of perhaps a bigger problem.

My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, there's a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.

I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood.

I support the truth, that is all there is to it. And if you fall in that category of the truth, you are supported by the truth.

Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text as culture's primary mode of communication, a radical change because images work so differently than words: They're immediate, they hit you at levels way beneath intellect, they come fast and furious.

If I'm going to work, hopefully I have a late call time, and can hang out with Rain and our nanny until we shoot.

But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.

I think Joan Rivers is such an untapped legend that people just don't appreciate, because they grew up with her on QVC, or they grew up with her on E!, or they grew up watching her do the things that in their minds the more prestigious comics wouldn't have taken or done.

Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.

I didn't watch T.V. from the time I was 18 'til my mid-30s. And then I got a T.V. to watch 'The Sopranos.' I realized, 'Oh, T.V. is really interesting.'

I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree. Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time.

Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.

I can support co-ops if they want to do it as we've known co-ops in America for 150 years - where they serve the purposes of the consuming public, whether it's health care or whether it's co-ops as we know them in the Midwest, providing electricity or to sell supplies to farmer.

Everybody has a bad hair day, but us girls still like to be told we look nice even if we don't feel like we do.

I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.

My mom is a translator for the school district in Delaware. She'd hear these different stories from working with families there. Those stories stuck with me.