'Vegetarian' is a slippery word. I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck - the point is I'm vegan.
It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me.
A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.
I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.
One of the things you learn at drama school is not to play the result, but just to play the moment.
It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.
You know, frankly speaking, money just doesn't figure largely in my world view.
What is needed isn't merely tolerance but acceptance, wholehearted and unconditional.
I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior.
Without approval and without scorn, but carefully studying the sentences word by word, one should trace them in the Discourses and verify them by the Discipline. If they are neither traceable in the Discourses nor verifiable by the Discipline, one must conclude thus: 'Certainly, this is not the Blessed One's utterance; this has been misunderstood by that bhikkhu - or by that community, or by those elders, or by that elder. ' In that way, bhikkhus, you should reject it.