According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.

On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.

I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free.

My fans are going to support me through thick and thin; 100 per cent, they'll always support me.

Success always leaves footprints.

You don't have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.

I have just explained my idea of how a constructive period of reflection, one that would send a clear message to the citizens of Europe: You should now what our priorities are. For Germany this means: Unemployment is one of one of our biggest problems.

If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.

Violence is the first refuge of the violent.

I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.

Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound.

Development and prosperity of the world cannot happen without the simultaneous development of India and China.

I came in thinking about Bobby Ewing, but I love this Ray Krebbs role.

I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.

To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow.

My body is a compass and it does not lie.

Attempts to put pressure on Russia and to compel it to abandon its values, truth and justice have no prospects whatsoever.

Painful events leave scars, true, but it turns out they're largely erasable. Jill Bolte Taylor, the neuroanatomist who had a stroke that obliterated her memory, described the event as losing '37 years of emotional baggage.'

I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird.

I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.

If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied.

That's how you live. You participate. You take risks.

I feel like I'm really young and I'm only thinking about my career and continuing playing.

The business is all about gush and hype. You never have a bad meeting in L.A.

When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new devices.

When I was a little girl, the only real form of entertainment I was exposed to was theater, being raised in St. Louis, and I still love theater, and I think sitcoms are similar to that, in there's a live audience, and you know, I definitely like the comedy of it, too. I like to make people laugh, and I definitely think laughter is healing.