Why should I have my picture taken when I can get paid for it?

Oh, if people only knew how this business has grown.

The thing you've got to watch for is going broke when you're old. Look at all the people that go down and out at the finish. The man who built my country place is blind now and penniless. That's terrible!

There is no acting in a serial. You simply race through the reels.

It is born to every Western girl to like outdoor life and to do all kinds of wild, daring things.

Why should I have my picture taken when I can get paid for it?

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

I support stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research.

Life usually tells the best stories - but sometimes it takes an artist to show us what they mean.

I grew up watching North American sport - basketball, hockey - so I like it when it's a little bit more energetic, rowdier, heckling either for you or against you. I think it's fun to have that in sport.

There's two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say.

'A Christmas Story' has always meant a lot to me personally.

I am shy - going to parties kills me.

In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.

When you have more than you need build a longer table not a higher fence.

I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was life on Mars, about the environment in which Earth and the Sun is immersed, the behavior of the Sun.

If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If they live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. If they live with criticism, they learn to condemn.

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office but have not urged it since on account of the pressure you have been under.

I never think in terms of gold, currency, diamonds. I'm not clever enough for that.

I liked doing comedies, but as I got older I was better suited to do Westerns. Because I think it becomes unattractive for an older fellow trying to look young, falling in love with attractive girls in those kinds of situations.

Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish.

Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.

Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.

There's something incredibly primal about facing something treacherous but doing it anyway.

I love all of Albert Brooks' work from Defending Your Life back to his first film, Real Life, but am sorry that he seems to have lost his edge in his more recent work.

Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.

You're confident, you're going to the ring to fight, but there's always that little thing where you're thinking, 'God.' You're nervous. But you have to embrace it and enjoy it.