Quotes

I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.

I was worried that one day, 40 years from now, I would look back and wouldn't be able to remember the details of my life, so I've written them all down.

I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.

Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.

I think being beautiful is only one aspect of your life.

Every day I am trying to improve my life.

I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I got that sort of attention in my real life. Because in my real life, I'm this weird, dorky girl who just hangs out with her dog.

When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18.

From 19 to 28 there was a lot of turmoil in my life, but in a stuck way. Then, around 28, my life started to get shaken up. I realized I wanted to grow more and that anything that wasn't working in my life, I could fix it. I feel like I came into my womanhood. And that was when I got married.

I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.

My Mother is an actress, so it's always been a part of my life.

Grupo Limite is always going to be a major highlight of my life. We worked so hard, sometimes touring for 10 months at a time.

I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.

It occured to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life!

John Waters has certainly gotten to a place in his life where he doesn't do anything he doesn't want to do. He's always been that way, but at this point, he's greatly respected for it.

Life is a dangerous thing. Insecurity is the price of living.

I took revenge on hardship from my earlier life by forgetting it.

It is well documented that I am a lifelong football fan. My love of the British game started with the 1966 World Cup.

Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now.

In my personal life, I'm hilarious! I was always a bit of a jokester.

I love escaping into film, because everyday life I find quite troublesome. So any excuse to go into a cinema and say goodbye to the world for a couple of hours, or in a book or whatever, is great.

Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.

When nobody read, dyslexia wasn't a problem. When most people had to hunt, a minor genetic variation in your ability to focus attention was hardly a problem, and may even have been an advantage. When most people have to make it through high school, the same variation can become a genuinely life-altering disease.

What we want in students is creativity and a willingness to fail. I always say to students, 'If you've never at some point stayed up all night talking to your new boyfriend about the meaning of life instead of preparing for the test, then you're not really an intellectual.'

I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling.