Isabel Allende Quotes

Well, I have no problem with 3-D but I don't think it's necessarily a blanket requirement for every film.

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

I'm obsessed with hula-hooping. I do it for 20 minutes a day. I don't use the old-fashioned hollow plastic kind we had when we were kids, but I discovered a new one at Danskin that's smaller and weighted.

Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture.

Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.

I'm a New Yorker now, and believe me, there's no comparison between the Big Apple and Kalamazoo, no similarity at all. New York City's hectic, always in fast-forward, and Kalamazoo's more laid-back, smaller, slower.

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

China has a bigger middle class than the entire population of Europe.

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical.

When I see a woman who looks her age, she's radiating something, and it's life.

Being the youngest of five, you're adored, you're fueled with confidence.

Saving the world via medical research or going off to Gobi Desert to dust off dinosaur eggs is what I thought I might be doing when I was a kid, and I'd love to bring those interests to a show like 'E.R.' or 'The West Wing,' or a movie like 'Jurassic Park.'

And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of course, to get a bad review, you can't talk back, and it's sort of shaming in a way.

I like to work. I don't like to have lulls. I feel like it makes me lazy and uncreative, and that's when your ideas become stagnant.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

It's so funny when you're actually directing because things start popping that you don't expect to pop, and something that you think is going to pop, maybe doesn't quite have the impetus that you thought it might.

I'm pretty spiritual; I believe a lot in the spirit of man.