I never had that star aura.

I just thought that I had had my fill for a while and wanted to have a family. My husband was moving to Chicago for his job. And so I went along. And it was a great thing that I did.

I like trying to get pregnant, I'm not so sure about childbirth.

I never had that star aura.

I never had that reputation of being not accessible.

It was at the beginning of all this tabloid frenzy. Our garbage was being gone through, and we were involved in all these chases getting home, and people camping out on our property to get pictures.

I started in this business on soap operas.

It always made me sad that there were kids who didn't have homes.

Thank God I didn't have my children until I was a little bit older.

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.

Social media gives one a family to share one's life with.

More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat of citizens to private life and private space, screened from solidarity with strangers and increasingly afraid or even unable to imagine acting in public.

I hit rock bottom before I even went there. Actually, prison was the rescue mission that God had put on me. He sent out his angels to rescue me. In prison, he protected me the whole time I was in there, and it was just for me to get my will power back, to get my strength back, get my focus together.

The old joke was Mitch Leigh, land baron, barren land.

I had long hair when I was a teenager.

Nothing is wasted.

Sometimes its hard to tell if retirement is a reward for a lifetime of hard work or a punishment.

I like to rock and roll, but I'm a mushy guy, too. I want to be the guy that all the girls love and all the guys want to hang out with.

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

People don't know how to behave in public anymore.

When I first started writing, I was living in England and I had that uniquely English sense of sarcasm, which has definitely seemed to have left me. I am a naturalized American and my sensibility has become far more American.

He's Soderbergh, we're working for him. It doesn't matter what he's doing; we'll see it at the premiere.

Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.

If youre gonna fall apart do it in your own bedroom.

Everything that's old is new, and everything that's new is old.

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.

I think self-belief is a massive thing in football. If you don't believe in yourself, not many others will. Work hard and believe in yourself, and I think you'll go as far as your body will take you.

When government accepts responsibility for people then people no longer take responsiblitiy for themselves.

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.

I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.

I saw that to do exceptionally well you have to push your limits and that, if you push your limits, you will crash and it will hurt a lot. You will think you have failed—but that won’t be true unless you give up.

I come into work late morning time and go at it until early evening, and I'm lucky that I'm at the point where I'm able to do that.

Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the writer.