Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.

Apparently, I don’t know if this is true but I hope it is, I’ve heard it from a few reports, when we went up to get our awards apparently Clint Eastwood turned to someone that he was with and went, (Clint impression) ‘Who the f**k are they?’

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Dear Ladies: You should never need to prove to other women that he’s in love with you. That’s his job.

Men’s men: gentle or simple, they’re much of a muchness.

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it.

I like to audition for good projects because if it’s a good project, it’s an opportunity to get in front of a casting director.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

I’m out there to clean the plate. Once they’ve read what I’ve written on a subject, I want them to think, ‘That’s it!’ I think the highest aspiration people in our trade can have is that once they’ve written a story, nobody will ever try it again.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?

Stupidity is something you can only partly save people from.

Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.

A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

In heaven an angel is no one in particular.

Obesity has overtaken cancer as the No. 1 cause of avoidable, preventable death in American society. It’s an epidemic-level problem.

I became a singer to sing my songs. They’re so hip who else is going to sing them?

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

It doesn’t have to take over your life, it doesn’t have to define you as a person, it’s just important that you ask for help. It’s not a sign of weakness.

I love basketball.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.