"I want to take advantage of any popularity I have."

“[A]s you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air. And be careful what you swallow.”

“The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100 million?”

Source : “The woman in control of America's bottom” by Louise France, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2008.

“I was raised in a reform synagogue. I think we all bring with us a sense of when hard things happen to us, we find ourselves asking questions of why are these things happening to me at this time in my life. I think in that sense, there's a certain resonance that I carry. It's more of a spiritual resonance as opposed to particularly of Judaism.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“If they would only do as he did and publish posthumously we should all be saved a lot of trouble.”

“The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal...The business of art is to appeal to the soul.”

Source : The New York Times, December 10, 1916.

“I personally believe it's really important for the students to experience a particular culture.”

“I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.”

“You will attract everything that you require. If it's money you need... you'll attract it. If it's people you need... you'll attract it. If it's a certain book you need... you'll attract it.”