It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.

I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.

So in those days, they were scooping up any young person who could sing and look decent, ah, at the same time.

I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.

I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.

The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.

And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived.

And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.

It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.

I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.

So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.

It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies.

I think, ultimately, if you create characters that people like and can relate to, your characters are grounded on a human level even if your cars are not.

Yes, the concept that blunt-force trauma of the head causes brain damage is a generally accepted principle of medicine. That is why I was so appalled by the NFL doctors who were denying my work.

I don't like doing movies that are meaningless or unrealistic. I like things with a lot of reality to them. I'm a pretty serious kind of person myself. Things affect me.

I think dieting is bad for you.

Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.

I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.

They try to put labels on people and make false accusations. It's like an old football coach refusing to update the playbook.

Those entrusted with arms... should be persons of some substance and stake in the country.

Before 'Final Fantasy VII,' I would have told you that I had zero interest in RPGs with turn-based combat. But that game was so well done, I didn't care what genre it was. Any genre can be done poorly or done well.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Tennis players are very fortunate that unlike some disciplines of sport, in mega-sporting events like the Grand Slams, they have a huge platform to showcase their talents on the world stage once every few months.

I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effects.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.

I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people.

On nights that I'm feeling a need to stretch personally and artistically, I tend to put together outfits that are very quirky, mismatched and over-the-top eclectic.

I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

You are the sun in my day the wind in my sky the waves in my ocean and the beat in my heart... Thinking of You!

Hip hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art it never treats its product as art.

We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.

Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.

What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.

You have to enjoy yourself when you go to the movies. People don't want to spend their hard earned money to simply go see a history lesson.