Surfing is not my strong point. And... I don't really have a tan. I go to the tanning place, the one that sprays you with color.

Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer.

It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear.

When you don't work for a while, immediately you get a little black mark next to your name.

You have to make difficult choices in your life, and you just have to be happy with them.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

Surfing is not my strong point. And... I don't really have a tan. I go to the tanning place, the one that sprays you with color.

Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.

Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.

Whenever I see pointless use of special effects, I reach for something else.

I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.

We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room.

I'm kind of one of these guys who wants to play everything once before it's all over.

Anger is what makes a clear mind seem clouded.

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

In war events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

I think it's more fun to play a hero with an edge.

At home, I'm just Amy, but in India, I get mobbed.

Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution.

I try to create some stupid entertainment for really smart people that they don't feel too stupid watching. In 'Xanadu,' the biggest laugh was a reference to Achilles.

Everyone needs help when they try something new.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

I ended up in Broadmeadows orphanage - I don't know how that happened - whether she gave me up for adoption or the church was responsible. Whatever happened, she was a single mum.

Relax, Georgie, I'm just making my collar and cuffs match.

Glamour can be something very simple. Glamour can be how you wash your face how you make your breakfast.

You don't want a slob, but you don't want a guy who is constantly borrowing your tweezers.

For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.

Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.

Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most ham-fisted prose if only a writer can make them long to know what happens next.

I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous.

Liability limit has become a symbol of corporate greed in passing the risk of disaster to the U.S. government and U.S. citizens.