She Quotes

I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth.

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.

I think whenever people talk about the 'Anna Sui woman,' they're talking about someone that's probably kind of more downtown, and there's always like this ambiguity: Is she a good girl, or a bad girl?

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.

I think one of my biggest influences is Bette Davis. I've seen almost every one of her films, and she's been very inspiring to me.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

I'm not the new Penelope Cruz. I'm Paz Vega. There's only one Penelope and she's marvellous.

And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once.

I got married about three years ago again to a wonderful German woman. Her name is Monika and she is beautiful. She is one of the biggest women Zappa fans I have ever met in my life.

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

I always enjoyed politics. I worked at the White House recently, primarily for the First Lady. Because of my experience running my travel agency, I was in charge of the files she kept on the Travel Office.

My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I wanted her to be.

Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent.

I like a woman who takes care of herself - it says something about the way she'll care for me.

She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she's also a bit of a fatale. She's the right hand of Voldemort, and the only woman death eater.

I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better.

Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

I think because I was the first Chinese player to win a grand slam, people were thinking: 'She's not like normal people.'

She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it.

Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open.

He asked me whether I had seen the movie 'The Color Purple.' I said no she hadn't. And Bobby said, 'Well, it's a terrible picture. They don't make good, decent, moral pictures nowadays.'

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.