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 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.

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.

If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations.

"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure.

Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images.

We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.

I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.

Losing is not in my vocabulary.

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.

Tired is not a word in my vocabulary.

In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.

First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is a geopolitical question. For the Europeans right now it is very much focused on the dependence on imported natural gas.

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese.

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.