I like to sneak in under the radar. I don't have any paparazzi following me or have to deal with that stuff. I'm never in the tabloids. I prefer that.

I try not to worry about what that's going to look like. If you worry about looking stupid, that's when you look really stupid.

Studio people are idiots. Until they see someone else doing it and make a success of it, they don't open their minds. Most of them are idiots.

Women always feel like they're being stared at and judged, and rightfully so.

First of all, weren't all the best beatings in the trailer for "The Passion of the Christ"? I hate when the trailer gives away all the best stuff.

A woman can laugh and cry in three seconds and it's not weird. But if a man does it, it's very disturbing. The way I'd describe it is like this: I have been allowed inside the house of womanhood, but I feel that they wouldn't let me in any of the interesting rooms.

I like to sneak in under the radar. I don't have any paparazzi following me or have to deal with that stuff. I'm never in the tabloids. I prefer that.

I try not to have too much of an ego. I'll do anything.

I lost that excitement I had when I first started out. It was all about the need to just get a job, and so I found the joy again when I was writing Deuce Bigelow. I was laughing so hard and along with my writing partner at the time, simply laughing until we cried.

First of all, weren't all the best beatings in the trailer for 'The Passion of the Christ'? I hate when the trailer gives away all the best stuff.

Sharks are like dogs. They only bite when you touch their private parts.

I could get into bed with James Bond, then take my false leg off and it would really be a gun.

We look at each other with shy relief. It's the look two odd socks give when they recognise each other in the wild.

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

If you want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, be an audience.

Gravitas is the soup bone in the stew of television news.

Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.

The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.

For me, one of the biggest designers is Azzedine Alaia. Everything he is doing is fantastic.

I have a 48-hour rule. No drinking two days before a start. But those other days? Yes, I'm gonna go out. If I was locked up in my house all week, I don't know what I'd be like on the baseball field.

The thought of being on my own really terrified me. But then I realized being alone is really a cleansing thing.

Courage is not the absence of fear but the acquired ability to move beyond fear.

I'm barely reading the 'New York Times!' But I do try to keep abreast of things.

Whether it be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro or dealing with your children, life is an adventure, and it's how you perceive it.

Live, Love, Dream.

Blood is thicker than water

The president hasn't come after me yet, but we've had other people come after me!

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

I don't work Sunday any more... The Sabbath is a very reasonable idea. Otherwise, you work yourself to death.

I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.

There are no gains without pains.

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.

Parenting is the biggest sacrifice one can make. It's putting your life on hold to fulfill the promise of your children's tomorrow.