“Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.”

The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.

Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.

I also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.

Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.

Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.

The news media in general are liberals.

Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.

New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It’s a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.

Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don’t know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I’ve rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.

The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.

When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.

I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.

I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!

I don’t believe that prayers actually change God’s mind – if there is a God – but I liked praying for people in need. It was like moral weightlifting. I tend to be self-obsessed, and it was nice to get out of my brain once in a while.

I am the good girl and I always play the good girl. It’s nice to do that.

They were actually really nice to me [in Fast 8]. We had BBQs every day on set. We had a lot of laughs and a lot of good times.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

I figured if I played nice, I’d get more time with you.

Conservatives are more religious than liberals–although there is no evidence that they’re nicer people because of it.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Nice is the worst word.