"Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny."

“I love the fact that Oprah Winfrey comes out number one [most admired women], regardless of who you are, because she has achieved so much in the business world. I think Republicans, for example, when Republican women rate her higher than Hillary Clinton, they obviously don't care that she supported Barack Obama.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org

“I'm not preaching about things you should do, I'm not political or anything. I'm probably not the best role model.”

Source : "Alexa Chung: 'I'm probably not the best role model'" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.

“Coffee it is best to buy by the bag, as it improves by keeping. Let it hang in the bag, in a dry place, and it loses its rank smell and taste.”

“Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public.”

“It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being.”

“My first official consulting job, therefore, was for a scrap metal dealer (he resented the term "junk dealer") in East Edmonton named Benny Sugarman.”

“One bacterium has 2,000 to 6,000 proteins.”

Source : Source: www.nytimes.com

“I put pressure on myself to propose something new - I think it's the minimum that you can do as a fashion designer.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com