If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.

A person hears only what they understand.

I’m just changing the game because I know what the fans want and the people want ‚cause I’m a fan of hip-hop.

The quote-unquote ‚description‘ of a leading man was once your tall, handsome man with the build of whatever, almost a trophy to some degree. I think now it’s about making a leading man what you want a leading man to be. In this day, you can’t deny talent. You look at Jonah Hill, you look at Zach Galifianakis, you look at myself.

‚Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Is it weird in here, or is it just me?

I know about two things: ‚Rocky III‘ and Clubber Lang, and ‚A-Team‘ and B.A. Baracus. That’s who I am!

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‚There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.‘ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

Seeing is not always believing.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

Next to my husband, and along with Marlon Brando, I think that Yves Montand is the most attractive man I’ve ever met.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.

Everybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

People see things differently and remember things differently. It’s why if somebody robs a liquor store and there are four witnesses they’ll often disagree.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

My age is very insignificant to me. I don’t think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.

I really like Lady GaGa and everything she is for her fans.

Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thing.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

I view myself as being the average woman. While I am first lady, I wasn’t first lady my whole life. I’m a product of pop culture. I’m a consumer of pop culture, and I know what resonates with people.