William Shakespeare Quotes

I get all dressed up in fuchsia, looking like a clown, and show pretty pictures to people.

I think if I did do something in another genre, it would be science fiction; I'm a big sci fi nerd.

There's enough data showing that the fitter you are, the better you eat, the more likely you are to stay healthy longer.

With the stand-up comic on TV, whether it's Seinfeld or Cosby or Roseanne, more important than their knowledge of how to tell a joke is their knowledge of themselves, or the persona they've created as themselves. So that when you're in a room with writers, you can say, 'Guys, that's a funny line, but I wouldn't say it.'

Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.

A lot of my work is about equalizing things and kind of destroying any barrier between what's high and low, or what's deep or what's shallow, complex or simple. I hope I'm ever-changing.

After watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North and South and that's what I turned my style into. I was a North and South runner.

Young people will tell you, if you're not prepared to write the most violent, the most misogynistic, the most horrible kinds of rhymes and scenarios, you are not going to get air play.

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

Music has this emotional thing to it, and it touches people in crazy ways. The power of having that power is something that, once you have it, you don't want it to ever end.

Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.

I was always the observer, trying to understand what was going on. I was always the new kid. Writing became my safe place.

There are 65 to 70 photography galleries in New York alone. In the U.K., there are no more than five, and they're all in London.

When I was young, I was told that I had a sulky, pouty face.

Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.

I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me to Paris to work in shows. It was supposed to be two weeks, but I ended up living there with my Zimbabwean boyfriend. I made enough money modeling and acting in French movies to buy a nice flat.

If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.

Tabloids are going to focus on my shoes and not my music; that's just what they do.

I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.

Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!