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“I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I'm so shy.”
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“The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.”
Source : "Testimony" by Dmitri Shostakovich, translated by Antonina W. Bouis, New York: Limelight, (p. 156), 2004.
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“First do it, then say it.”
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“If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places.”
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“Listen, it's not nice to have your mum kill herself, that is difficult. But at the end of the day, it happened a long time ago. My mother was, I hope, not the reason that I have been successful. It's not as simplistic as 'My mum killed herself; I've got to prove myself.' I was very lucky that my parents took an interest in me.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.”
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“Love travels the miles upon the wings of Angels.”
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“I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are she's going to end up looking like me.”
Source : "Whoopi Goldberg in full flight". Interview with Cole Morton, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2009.
