Me Quotes
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I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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I'm a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it's all a personal thing. I'm not someone who'll say, 'This is what I believe, and you should too!' It's more of an internal, quiet, grounded, fulfilling thing for me.
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I was an early user of AOL – so early, I didn't even have a number after my user name. For me, email was once vital, both for personal and business uses.
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The young adult category is particularly interesting to me in terms of science fiction and fantasy tropes.
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Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.
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Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.
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My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.
Garry Kasparov -
I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
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I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.
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Tell me, I forget, show me, I remember, involve me, I understand.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
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Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
