Oh, my wife is a wonderful cook. She comes from a food-loving Italian family – her father owned a pizzeria!

It’s not about composition. It’s the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. I’ve got lots of African statues and things, and the cleaner arranges them like soldiers, which drives...

Russian women like to be feminine. Even if it’s minus-10 degrees and snowing, a Russian woman will still be in her stilettos.

An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

The kind of young woman who can be a terrific torchbearer has high standards all the time, not just in her prom dress, but every, ordinary day.

During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

I’ve become one of those women who thrusts her engagement finger out all the time.

When science has sent forth her fiat – it is only to hear and obey.

People say the top part of my face looks like my dad’s and the bottom part like my mom’s. I have his eyes and her nose and mouth.

Her makeup, hair and general quirkiness overshadow the fact that Cyndi Lauper was one the most soulful chicks to come out of the ’80s.

Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew Sinkler in ‘The Trusty’ was going for water, I did not...

One aspect of my mum’s personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.

One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I’m fine with that and I will never judge her.

Honey Boo Boo is a handful, baby. She says what she wants to say, does what she wants to do. I’ve only seen, like, snippets, like one or two or three, you know, little shots...

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.

The problem is you bring up the name Elizabeth Taylor, people think of jewelry; they think of husbands; the ‘la dolce vita’ lifestyle. I’m happy to have gotten to know her when I got to...

When the show’s not around any more, it’s going to be hard not to have her in my life.

With a tennis racket strapped tightly to her hiking pack, Martina Navratilova began her ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro. The tennis legend had visions of celebrating at the summit of Africa’s highest peak by hitting a...

Just Cavalli for Her is a flowery and sexy fragrance. I like its freshness and feminine scent.

My wife and I got engaged in New Hampshire at this lake house that her family’s had forever, and it’s on Lake Winnipesaukee. And so we went there every summer as we were dating.

The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation’s most promising talents.

I’ve signed autographs as Natalie Portman. I was at a Film Festival party where someone asked if I was her, and I didn’t want to embarrass them, so I signed the autograph as her. I...

Her heart may be cracked, but it is pure. She may be jaded, but she is hopeful. She may be broken, but she is strong. She may be here, but she will leave.

As a little girl, I got to meet Audrey Hepburn, who took my face in her hands and suddenly make me want to be an actress.

Every woman likes her own way, but no woman can endure to see another woman master even over a man who does not concern her.

Barbie has always been an inspiration. Dressing her was part of ever girl’s dream.

Back in my days as a children’s book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet to gossip about each other, and thought it might be nifty to develop...

I have never successfully written in the third person. If there’s a rhythm or a musicality that interests me, I become obsessed with the character, and I just have this need to spend time with...

I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of...

I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her.

She looked as if butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth – or anywhere else.

The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she...

Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.

My mom is very structured. She gets up, she does her prayers, and she eats her oatmeal with blueberries and Greek yogurt, and she has her prayer list, and she doesn’t worry too much about...

The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.

The message of body acceptance built on Jennifer Lawrence’s soundbites only empowers those who are willing to ignore the fact that her statements reinforce our current cultural views rather than subverting them.

When I need a break from the boys, I go with my girlfriend to buy pretty little dresses for her daughter.

If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I’d figure her career was as dead as mine!

Being away from her is torturous and I’d much prefer to be with her. So I just try to get out of here as soon as I can. I make sure I do my job...

In terms of style I typically veer toward a certain masculinity. My style inspirations range from images of my father in his 1970s suits, to Tilda Swinton, to Hugh Hefner, to Sharon Stone and her...

I always loved Kate Winslet, but after you meet her you really love her because she’s a cool chick.

When you look at the world, everyone in the world who cares about his or her family wants to have a major portion of their assets in the United States because we are the growth...

You can tell when a girl went out of her way to look good.

Miami Beach – that’s where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother – a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate – my grandparents, my mom and...

To all those who care, You can’t forever. Time steals the years,And your reflection in the mirror.But I can still see the story in your eyes, And your timeless passion that’s never died.While your skin...

I’m not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself.

As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I’ll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in...

The real Malala is gone somewhere, and I can’t find her.