There's a gray area there that I'm satisfied is not gray.

There's a gray area there that I'm satisfied is not gray.

I'm satisfied it's very black, meaning 'in the black'.

You name it, we had it. It won't happen again. You're not going to duplicate this show.

It was just so elaborate and so luxurious. We had every gadget imaginable. You know, I had the little gun that came out, and I had the little gun in the heel of the shoe.

Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man.

But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film.

Will Smith is young, he's cool and my kids have his CDs.

You know, this whole thing about Ricky Martin, and how successful that young man is. He's 27, I was 29.

I'm disappointed. I don't care about Will Smith, I don't want to.

Oh, that character was light years away from me. I'm not debonair. I'm not suave. I did wear tight pants, though, because I found out that it worked.

When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.

I did one year at NYU, and I'd love to go back there someday.

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.

There isn't much room for an outsider point of view in print any more.

All that violence in the world, we need to stop that.

I love a massage. I'd go every day if I could. I don't need to be wrapped in herbs like a salmon fillet, but I do love a massage.

The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds.

When I was in grad school, I had to admit I hadn't read Toni Morrison. My teacher, the novelist Colum McCann, said I had to. I read 'Beloved' and 'Song of Solomon.' Pretty incredible.

There are people who are just suicidal, regardless. They are built to self-destruct. It seems, in my family, like a virus that's resistant to any kind of help or care or medication.

Menswear is about subtlety. It's about good style and good taste.

It's a question of finding the right thing, if I'm going to be an actor... if I have to get up eight times a week for a number of months, I want to be excited and challenged from the day I start to the day I leave.

In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

I go to the hamam and put henna on my skin and hair. Even when I go to New York, I let the shower run hot to create a steam hamam at my hotel. But when I finish with the bath, I put on expensive French creams.

Houston people are way cool. Theyre smart they know how to have a good time.

I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.

People in my village had this mindset that in big cities like New York, if you are lost or without directions, no one will help you. The first time I came here, I tried to make sure not to walk by myself, because it would be difficult for me if I got lost. But people will help you.

At some point the rhetoric runs out, and we have to ask ourselves, 'Are we simply going to standby while somebody's rhetoric is good, but their actions are so lousy?' Are we going to stand up for that?

I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - from the lowest common denominator. It's not all gray to her; it's all black and white.

We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.

Elvis couldn't leave the hotel except under heavy guard. It was incredible how they went wild over him.

I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.

Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life.

More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).