I am Eloise. I am six. I am a city child. I live at The Plaza.

I am Eloise. I am six. I am a city child. I live at The Plaza.

You have to eat oatmeal or you'll dry up. Anybody knows that.

Getting bored is not allowed.

I am a city child. I live at The Plaza.

I'm a bit of a homebody. It doesn't take long for me to get to the point where I'm ready to be home again.

I think making a film that you think is good and you believe in is going to be difficult forever.

I'm nice. I love people. I love kids; I want kids of my own.

Simply being a guest on David Letterman's show has been a highlight of my career. I never dreamed that I would follow in his footsteps, though everyone in late night follows Dave's lead. I'm thrilled and grateful that CBS chose me. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go grind a gap in my front teeth.

I'm considered a new Democrat, which would be considered moderate.

I believe that children should not be made to work.

Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.

You know that being a public figure is instantly grounds for prosecution.

My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

Any time anyone says anything nice about me, whether it's Lady Gaga or your neighbor, it's a nice feeling, I'm very grateful for it. It's very helpful for your career. Every time someone says something complimentary it introduces you to their audience. It gives you credibility.

The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home.

A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard.

When you have a kid, you have to be more mature.

I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the '40s and '50s.

The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it.

I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.

Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.

Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.

Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little.