"It is not a question so much of a 'tree like a figure' or a 'root like a figure' - it is a question of bringing out the anonymous personality of these things."

“Don't confuse facts with reality.”

“Even though I was theatrically trained, learning to develop a character was an awesome experience.”

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

“What doesn't kill you, makes you fat.”

Source : Esmeralda Santiago (2006). “When I was Puerto Rican”, p.63, Da Capo Press

“The longer you garden the better the eye gets, the more tuned to how colors vibrate in different ways and what they can do to each other. You become a scientist as well as an artist, with the lines between increasingly blurred.”

Source : Marjorie Harris (1995). “In the Garden: Thoughts on Changing Seasons”, HarperCollins

“You have to wake up a virgin each morning.”

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

“Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.”

“The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.”

Source : Salon Interview, September 29, 2007.

“Everyone thought I was going to fall down on my shoes and I kept saying, 'Well if I do I'll just get up!'”