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“Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.”
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“I can run sub-10 any time but I'm just not ready.”
Source : "100m glory for Jamaican sprint duo", www.cnn.com. March 20, 2006. 
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“Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.”
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“Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.”
Source : "Daughters of the Promised Land, Women in American History" by Page Smith, (p. 273), 1970.
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“The Garden of Eden presents the same story: If you want to make yourself gods, you'll find you're akin to the animals.”
Source : Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org
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“Between Malraux, Balzac, and Montaigne, I choose Montaigne. Montaigne will survive all the others, because the essay, meaning direct communication between the writer and his reader, will outlast the novel, by at least a thousand years.”
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“I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“It's true that mostly in the last years, from the moment when Portugal was subjected to this policy of austerity, imposed by Europe, that I think many Portuguese became a little bit more left-leaning, and so did I too, I could not not care about the situation. I had to deal with it in some way.”
