I've worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

Chicken, brown rice, and veggies is a great healthy dinner option. It's full of whole grains and protein, and will keep you full for a long time.

I make a lot of mistakes, too, and I'm constantly re-evaluating how I'm doing things and trying to be better every day, whether it's as a mom or taking care of myself.

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun.

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.

If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watching it in a theatre? If you watch a TV show on your iPad, is it no longer a TV show? The device and the length are irrelevant; the labels are useless, except perhaps to agents and managers and lawyers, who use these labels to conduct business deals.

My mother always, always, always thought that I was going to be famous. Thought that I was going to win Oscars. In fact, I believe I accepted the Oscar as a ketchup bottle many a time in front of my mother in the kitchen. 'I'd like to thank the Academy,' I said with a ketchup bottle.

As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to the politicians to clean up lobbying and finance reform, nothing is going to change.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

I have long been a supporter of The Prince's Trust, and so when American Express asked me to launch 'Amex Be Inspired' and help young people build their confidence and fulfil their potential, I was delighted to get involved.

My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.

I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic.

After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

Edward Norton and I have known each other awhile. I just think he's the real deal, supremely talented and smart. He's got a great sense of humor.

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.

When you win, nothing hurts.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

I don't like going out on a date unless I know the broad a little bit beforehand. By the way, 'broad' to me is not a detrimental term for women; it's simply another word for female. Anyway, I don't really go out a whole lot, because there aren't many girls I like to take out and spend a whole evening with - at least not an evening in public.

First, I prepare. Then I have faith.

Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college, and I guess I agreed with them, or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

Success is to bring into existence, in adult terms, your childhood dreams.

I don't think I've ever really been a science fiction writer. I'm closer to a fantasist, speculative fiction, whatever, but labels are ultimately derogatory, and I eschew them as best I can.

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?

Never argue with a profit.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

The one thing we know about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Courage is action, not talk.

Life is a work in progress.

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

We are living in an open world. There is a freedom of speech and, clearly, freedom of speculation.

Israel always has a special filter to look at things, and that is the attitude toward Jews.

The Labor party under my leadership is working to bring the Israeli people together from all nationalities in the spirit of the scroll of independence.