I'm a firm believer that it's not the way you look or what you have, but what you've got inside.

Life is too short not to do a little practical joking.

I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.

I'm a firm believer that it's not the way you look or what you have, but what you've got inside.

I think men are a beautiful creation.

At a pool party, with everybody around, a guy and I had sex in the pool, but nobody knew it.

Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time, they need to feel like men.

I basically left Texas with no money. I was making $3.50 working in some mall, so I didn't have a lot of cash. I took $1,000 and headed to California. Along the way I stopped in Vegas because I had always wanted to see Caesar's Palace. So I stopped there and won $2,500 on a slot machine! It was amazing.

I don't ever really notice when guys are hitting on me. I'm oblivious.

I just didn't know what the heck I wanted to do with my life, so I drove out to California and got really lucky.

I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.

I put a lot of faith in dreams. I know that big movie roles and opportunities are going to happen.

I think there's an innocence to me.

I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true.

It seems a little self-involved to be like, 'Oh, he's hitting on me.' Maybe he's just trying to start up an innocent conversation.

I always wanted to be in the limelight, and I found I could get it by being on the stage. That was the beginning of everything for me.

The magical tapestry that 'Midnight's Children' unfolded became a part of a journey of self-discovery as I spent time close to my roots during the shooting.

Well, I think as long as people are talking about stimulus, I think the Fed will be thinking about cutting rates because monetary policy is the better way to go because you can turn it on and turn it off.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us but is always the result of a good conscience good health occupation and freedom in all just pursuits.

The longer the president goes without telling his side of the story, the more unease there will be in the public.

A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'

We can't have it so there are skyscrapers side by side with slums.

The Netherlands and the UK are both seafaring nations and so our ability to create jobs and to generate future growth is built on the free market.

Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.

If you were to do it again, you'd probably do some things differently. But the decision is right to have a single entity manage the water and the waste water for a country.

My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.

When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

Surfing makes me happy, so that's just what I'm going to keep doing.

I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892.

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays out. Which isn't to say that there aren't parents and children in cities or on farms. I just don't know them.

The American people know what's necessary to get this economy moving again. It's fiscal discipline in Washington, D.C. and across-the-board tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms.

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.

I love actors that are brave, that are courageous. And courage to me is not the absence of fear, it's the presence of fear, and they go to places that really scare them, because as an audience, that's where you feel danger.