I think every little girl is fascinated with mermaids.

I look up to people who succeed in accomplishing their dreams.

If anyone will listen I will continue to sing.

I love being creative.

I'm afraid of animals.

I think we should all come together, and that race and color or social demographics really don't matter.

You can be young and still have views and opinions.

I bite my fingernails. That's probably not a good thing.

Everything I listen to is influential in some way.

I think every little girl is fascinated with mermaids.

I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.

I began wondering, can one really write a biography of an illness? But I found myself thinking of cancer as this character that has lived for 4,000 years, and I wanted to know what was its birth, what is its mind, its personality, its psyche?

When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.

A paranoid is someone who has all the facts.

You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.

I try to leave out the parts readers skip.

When you are 18, 19, 20, you're used to being photographed all the time, in a certain way. So, the narcissism becomes almost out of control. And the way that young women are photographed, they become addicted to this feedback of the image.

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.

You want to know what living life to the fullest actually is Its waking up on a Monday morning with no complaints.

The best people to have power are the ones who dont want it.

I just always want a new producer. I'm going to have a new producer on the next one. Because I'm the same person, and I feel like, I know I'm going to bring to it a certain sensibility that's me, and I want to have something different coming out on each album.

We murdered them 0-0.

Artists need to express.

I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.

Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, I'm very fortunate.

Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better relate, understand, and communicate with our families and loved ones. Dr. Phil recommended reading my new book.

When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'

There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.

I'd see movies, comedies, and I loved 'Animal House', I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.

I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.

I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.

Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.

I don't profess to be Shonda Rhimes by any stretch of the imagination, or Dick Wolf. They're icons. I'm a filmmaker.

It's incredible, ridiculous really, isn't it? You realise you can make more money on the golf tour in one week than some people make in a lifetime.