Very Quotes

All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

I was 18 when I first visited London, I'm very provincial like that, but I must confess the moment I got to America I thought: This is the place. It was more open, with 24-hour cities and pubs and restaurants that didn't close.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering.

The safe haven that al-Qaida has found in Pakistan is very troubling.

We are a very, very unusual species.

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.

As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake.

I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.

I'm always very nervous about the word 'dancer' next to my name because anyone who's really trained in dance will go, 'This guy's fudging so badly.'

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.

If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives.

I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West.

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

I have the best husband in the world. He's very involved.

I think I'm very hardheaded.

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.