I shudder at the image they would piece together.

I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.

We're playing strip billiards.

You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman.

There was really nothing shocking in what Brigitte did, what was provocative was her natural sensuality.

I shudder at the image they would piece together.

Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father 'giving' the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to 'obey' the groom. And that only covers the wedding.

I think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think for all actors, there's a piece, there's some adrenaline, and part of the love of the job is not knowing what's coming next, and the variety.

It was one of those early mid-life crises, really. I started asking myself, 'What is it that I want from my life?' This question kept haunting me: 'Do I want to be a lawyer who always wanted to be a writer, or do I actually want to be a writer?

Silence is safer than speech.

You don't wanna be around your family constantly.

Rhett Butler is very mysterious. He disappears, he reappears, God knows where he goes. We know nothing about his family to speak of.

Lipstick is the best cosmetic that exists.

Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.

It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.

Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.

When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.

We're only as big as our experiences.

The silence between two notes is as beautiful and meaningful as the notes themselves.

I don't think Steve Scalise has a racist bone in his body. Steve and I have worked on issues that benefit poor people, black people, white people, Jewish people. I know his character.

I'm a terrible interviewer. I'm not a journalist - although I have a Peabody Award - and I'm not really a late-night host. What I am is honest.

A woman needs ropes and ropes of pearls.

When it comes to the ratings, I don't know what the rating system is. So when it comes to me, I've learned, with the little experience that I have, that when I feel really good about a movie in the editing room, it works. And when I've felt like a movie wasn't working, it didn't work.

The Gen. Commanding, takes this means of informing the people that he has not come among them to disturb them in the enjoyment of their rights, either of person or property.

I will do what the Prime Minister asks me to do; that is my consistent approach to politics and to service.

In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

When the fishbowl gets too small, it's time to pack up and leave and jump into the lake or ocean.

I'll always be a firefighter, no matter what.