Neither of us, me nor Dennis, is cavalier about a breakup. We both behaved very honorably.

I wouldn't have thought of myself as a person who could guide anybody and then it turned out that I can.

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

Clearly romantic comedy is my franchise genre, I don't mind saying that, it's true. I love doing them and hopefully always will do them.

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.

I'm a sucker for a funny script. And then, as soon as I don't wanna be, one comes along and grabs me.

What brings people down is the same thing over and over.

I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.

I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue.

I don't think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how loud and how hectic your life is, and how easily distracted you can get.

Neither of us, me nor Dennis, is cavalier about a breakup. We both behaved very honorably.

I've been in this business for years and I'm still befuddled by the ways of this town.

And the insidious thing is that people will either see a movie because it did well last weekend or won't see it because it didn't do well.

My family responsibilities don't conflict with my career. Not at all.

It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.

I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.

It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.

Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as.

I don't think I'll ever be a producer who's into taking the meetings and fighting the big fights with studios. I really don't like that part. I'm much more interested in the material.

A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.

And who cares, five years down the road, what most movies made or didn't make? If it's good, it stands up.

Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do even though it takes a lot.

When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often.

I don't feel particularly typecast because I think I do so many different kinds of things. Whether they're seen or not is another issue.

If you empower women you can change the world.

When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

I definitely grew up to Nina Simone and a lot of Ella Fitzgerald. And I loved Amy Winehouse. I loved that sort of soulful singer.

I would be happy with an Olympic bronze. What I don't have is an Olympic medal.

Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Refugees didn't just escape a place. They had to escape a thousand memories until they'd put enough time and distance between them and their misery to wake to a better day.

Usually, watching yourself is pretty awful. People think we all love watching our own films. We don't. We cringe away from it.

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.

If I didn't do something perfectly, I had to do it again... I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head.

If I was 30th in points and not making races and not being competitive in races, I could understand them saying I'm over-the-hill or I'm ready to quit or whatever.

In the beginning, everything is mixed " as if mud is mixed in gold. Then one has to put the gold into fire: all that is not gold is burned, drops out of it. Only pure gold comes out of the fire. Awareness is the fire; love is the gold; jealousy, possessiveness, hatred, anger, lust, are the impurities.

I am delighted, excited, and deeply honored.

I think one of the things that writers and creative artists generally have to deal with is the censors that we have in our heads, the voices that we have that say you better not tell that and don't tell that, and people will think you're not a good girl, and your grandmother's going to be mad at you and all of those things.

I want a kiss to be so believable it give the reader shivers.

Tomorrow is always fresh with no mistakes in it yet.

I'm petrified of bees because I have an anaphylactic reaction to bees.

I don't want to be 35 years old and still popping out songs in miniskirts and la-la-la.

I just want to creatively grow and be inspired. I don't want to do anything generic or dumb.

Bologna is a deli meat for people with eyes.

There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.

Yes, U.S. travelers dress better. The British are always so conspicuous in hot climates. They don't seem to wear shorts. American men seem to be comfortable wearing hot-weather clothing.

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives no support weve put it in an impossible situation.