I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.

I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

I've always loved a challenge.

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

My life has been a series of emergencies.

The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.

Trash is something you get rid of - or disease. I'm not something you get rid of.

Through indecision opportunity is often lost.

At the height of the Enron mania, the company's market value was $65 billion. Once the dust cleared, the final value was $0.

I get a feeling about where a teammate is going to be. A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

Whether you dream big or dream small, chances are your dream will come true if you believe in it and really work hard on it.

A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.

I think comedy I've learned is really just about relaxing and trusting yourself and allowing yourself to fail.

People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

I think people instinctively know that their job is to give service and that they are part of a community. It had a great impact on me when my father walked the picket lines and I walked with him during the civil rights movement.

North Korea is not an insane nation. It is not a crazy nation.

I'm an aggressive woman who gets things done, and that's the way it is, and I've never been embarrassed about the fact that I am pushy.

My tendency is to be very experimental.

I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.

When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure.

The way I lived my life, I truly wasn't an active resistance fighter.

I learned a valuable life lesson that summer. You should find something in life that you really enjoy and seriously consider making that your life's work.

'Moby-Dick' really threw me. I read it when I was 14 and my best friends were books. It changed the way I looked at the world.

Nothing is boring if you look at carefully.

The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.

Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.

Never be afraid to suffer, it's just a tool that some people aren't willing to use. It's that very tool that strengthens weak people.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.