An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Ever since I was 15, when I did my first movie by myself, where my mom wasn't there and I had a guardian, I got to know the crew, and I got to be part of a group and a family. I love that part of it, the friendships that you make.

One important lesson is this: It is okay to try and fail at something, but it isn't okay to not try. Parents need to encourage their kids, and it all starts in the home.

It's difficult. I'm a single parent now, and I'm having such a battle to see my kids on a daily basis. It's so hard.

I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.