Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.

"Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind."

"It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever."

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."

Brodie Bruce: I LOVE THE SMELL OF COMMERCE IN THE MORNING!

They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio.

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.

Respect is not creative ... Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore — and then you get something out of her.

If we wear our worst reviews like a backpack, they travel with us.

It's all about being comfortable, being easy and having you be able to wear something and not having it wear you. It's classic. Every time I've tried to be bold and crazy, I feel like a Japanese animated cartoon character.

I love being home. I have friends that come over.

Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.

Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.

Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

"Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?"

"The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side."

"Sometimes a mind is like a mouth: you just got to shut it."

"Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead."

"In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'."

"If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic."

"Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult."

"Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect."

"I love to see my family together. That's what life is about. It's about family."