"I'm weird - I don't really listen to American music while I'm writing. I do occasionally get an anthem song, but generally speaking, when I write, I only listen to Japanese and Hawaiian music."

“I am not ambitious to appear a man of letters: I could be content the world should think I had scarce looked upon any other book than that of nature.”

Source : Robert Boyle (1738). “The Philosophical Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq; Abridged, Methodized, and Disposed Under the General Heads of Physics, Statics, Pneumatics, Natural History, Chymistry, and Medicine. The Whole Illustrated with Notes, Containing the Improvements Made in the Several Parts of Natural and Experimental Knowledge Since His Time. In Three Volumes. By Peter Shaw, M.D.”, p.28

“I came, I saw, and I KICKED Stone Cold's ASS!”

“Both dance and dream are brought into being by the consciousness of a moment. They can never be repeated or successfully imitated. But you can dance and dream again. You must, if life is to continue.”

“Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.”

“I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel confident that I'd still have made my mark in some way. But maybe the self-loathing bit is the element that makes you strive for more. Makes you strive to be better.”

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

“Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up for them. I'm not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film.”

Source : "How I survived divorce, the tabloids and Jamie Theakston" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2001.

“The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.”

“During the last 100 years our people have been in a process of building up the country and the nation, of expansion, of getting additional Jews and additional settlements in order to expand the borders here. Let no Jew say that the process has ended. Let no Jew say that we are near the end of the road.”

Source : Ma'ariv (July 7, 1968); later quoted in Avi Shlaim "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World", 2000.