If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.

Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.

We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped!

If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.

I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.

Each time I've gone to the studio, the songs have got better and I've got more confident.

Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts.

Every four weeks I go up a bra size... its worth being pregnant just for the breasts.

My main horn is a hybrid of a flugelhorn a coronet and a trumpet, but that's really because, for me, each instrument to me had a different voice, and I liked them all, but I didn't like any one of them singularly.

And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.

It's hard to describe yourself as a hero - I just like to think of myself as a policeman. People can look to you like that, as a good guy who can help people.

When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.

People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.

There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.

Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious.

It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction.

I hope for my children, and for all Mexicans, that they can be proud to be Mexican, proud of their heritage, and proud that they have a peaceful, inclusive, vibrant country that is playing a role in the world.

I think it is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do to contribute more to the peace and stability not just of Japan and the region but of the entire world.

One day's delay is another day's lack of progress.

'It Girl' is such a weird term. It implies I go to parties and drink champagne.

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. Thats why they dont get what they want.

What I love about the theatre is that it's always metaphorical. It's like going back to being a kid again, and we're all pretending in a room. Sometimes, when the pretending really works, I find it much, much more moving than something on film.

When a defender comes up to tackle me, I want him to feel that ground.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third person and I loved the feel of that, and it was different but it was also the same. 'So Cold the River,' I knew, was going to be really different, and that's why I thought about doing it as a novella under a pseudonym, because I didn't want to damage my career.

I was very, very thrown by the fact that I had to make some big changes in my life in order to be myself, but under this kind of movie-star banner.

The modern day soup line is a check in the mail.

Nobody says you have to be shackled to tradition.

The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness.

It actually was a complete departure having a woman playing M. I didn't realize at the time that it would be so noticed.

When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.