"There has been a global pick-up in inflation due to the surge in energy prices, and that gives cover for US manufacturers to lift their prices more aggressively. Central banks across the globe are tightening policy in fears that the surge in energy prices will infect inflation more broadly."

"Given the recent surge in energy prices and higher medical costs, many will not be made whole by the increase. The increase is backwards looking; it represents inflation over the last year. In the near term, inflation will be greater."

"We may see energy prices level off."

"Broadly speaking, the economy is in a pretty good place. But it's no longer obvious what the next step should be. Now it gets a lot more complicated."

"The economy is strong and, if history is a guide, it should suggest inflationary pressures should develop, but they haven't."

"The economy is good, but it hasn't improved for everybody. The gains have predominantly gone to higher-income and higher net-worth households. Lower net-worth households are still struggling."

"Housing, the strongest part of the economy, is still booming, and manufacturing, the weakest part, should gain strength in coming months. Put it all together and it paints a pretty economic picture of solid growth and low inflation."

"Housing is a fault line in the economy that Greenspan is indeed worried about, but he doesn't think a housing (slowdown) will undermine the expansion."

"the economy has weathered these storms about as gracefully as could be expected."

"The economy is much improved over the past year but it's still underperforming."

"Trade is far and away the largest weight on the U.S. economy at present. This is a risky time."

"The economy hit a pot hole in the fourth quarter. I'm not at all worried about the health of the economy."

"The economy hit a pothole in the fourth quarter."

"It's how you look at beauty. Is it only an outward appearance with hair and makeup and a hot body, or is it something deeper than that?"

"I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there."

"It's something that you have to experience in your life, but I think my first kiss, I was 7 and it was really yucky."

"There's so much more to life than looking a certain way."

"I love to travel. I'm a curious person."

"I think about how I'm spending my money, and I like to spend on my family."

"Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric."

"I’m always scared to death that I won’t do a role justice. But fear can be a great motivator."

"You're always going to make mistakes. That's life. You just want to grow from them and try to make as few as possible. That's why you do reach out and ask people for help, where needed."

"I believe in talent, and you believe in who you cast and help them go the distance."

"In the absence of a second layer of information, we all assume the job growth is from hiring. It is our default position."

"The potential for even higher energy prices is a risk to the economic outlook. The economy has digested the higher prices gracefully so far. But it can get a bit of indigestion if prices move higher."

"The economy is going to be hit hard by Katrina, and it is going to be hardest on consumers who are already stretched thin. With the surge in gasoline and home heating oil prices, consumers will have a difficult choice to make between filling their gas tank or spending on other things."

"So far, the surge in oil prices has yet to do any significant damage to the broader economy. We may see some softening in the consumer spending numbers soon, but unless that translates into a weaker job market, the economy should be able to weather these higher energy prices."

"This is a significant economic event. This is much more substantial than any other natural disaster that the U.S. has experienced."

"He doesn't have the wide range of experience Greenspan did going into the job, which has served Greenspan well."

"The economy is strong, and if history is a guide it should suggest inflationary pressures should develop, but they haven't. Given the crosscurrents in the economic inflation data, it will difficult for him to be clear-cut."

"The economy hit a pothole in the fourth quarter. I'm not at all worried about the health of the economy."

"It's similar to asking a big part of the labor force to leave. In today's economy where the job market is at capacity, asking people to leave means the economy will not grow as fast. In fact, there could be a very difficult adjustment over the first three to four years when this process is in full swing."

"The economy so far has gracefully digested the higher energy prices _ amazingly so."

"Making a movie is you're really only as good as your weakest link, so when everyone's working at their best and it actually comes together, it's an extraordinary thing because it doesn't always."

"I'm very glad that [the death penalty] hasn't existed for many years in the U.K."

"I wake up so full of life and feeling so alive and so full of joy when I get to go to a set and tell a story. I just - I couldn't imagine not having that, and what a gift it's been in my life."

"As a producer, you really have - you're able to hand-pick all the talent that you want to be surrounded with."

"As a performer, I don't like to play the same thing over and over. I like to play it and let it go and move on. That's also why television hasn't really been something that I've done."

"The idea of playing a character for even two years, to me feels claustrophobic - only because I want to play a lot of different people."

"I don't believe in the death penalty. I believe that there are other people as we speak right now in prison, wrongfully accused, who could serve such a fate. That is injustice at its greatest."

"It's give-and-take and back-and-forth, that constantly allows you to grow as an artist and as a human being."

"What I love about making movies is that it's a collaboration. It's one of the most rewarding things, to create something and have someone show you something that you didn't see, and vice versa."

"I feel like I've had a really great intense relationship with every single Director I've ever worked with. I can't say there's one that hasn't been deep and profound in its own way."

"I think what's great about that relationship between an actor and a Director is you have to really blow away all your thing, the safety things that you put up."

"I pretty much have made a career out of playing real life people."

"I haven't tucked a sock in my pants for three years."

"All you have to remember is 'audition' is synonymous with 'opportunity. I mean, if you absolutely hate auditioning, do you also hate opportunities? That wouldn't make much sense."

"I bring my dogs on set with me, and my little dog Karoo is smart as a whip. She knows where the craft-services food tables are, so anytime I can't find her, I know she has found her way to that area. She's a funny dog."

"One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you."

"I cut coupons, love specials and believe in buying toilet paper and toothpaste in bulk. It's just who I am."