Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

I’ve been invited to do ‚Dancing With the Stars‘ three times, but Lifetime said no.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

When I was five, I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo’s sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey’s angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.

Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that’s been made from one of my books, I know that it isn’t going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I’ll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

I don’t watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched ‚The King’s Speech‘ on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

When I’m surfing, I’m sure not thinking about the paparazzi. I guess if they start getting on floaties and coming out there in the water, then I might be a little upset.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

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

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

I’ve always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

If you’re a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don’t understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Anybody that doesn’t like Cardi B a hater!

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me.

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell – fantastic.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

I’ve always loved the idea of playing Black Adam.

Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.

I think it speaks of all women having those few special things that make them feel feminine. And so when I was a little girl, I would associate Guerlain with that.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that’s not something I could do.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.