“I’m not too into the trends – I like to look at trends as suggestions, not as rules.”

I learned you have to stay focused on the people who love and support you…. Remember that hate comments can be a cry for help or attention. I recommend not responding at all, but if you do, be kind.

I think everyone is most confident when they are just being themselves and not trying to impress others.

Whenever I have free time, I love to just lay in my bed and watch YouTube videos, watch movies. Just basically do nothing.

Maybelline’s Precise Ink Pen Liner is by far the easiest liquid eyeliner I’ve ever used. I’m really bad at applying liquid liner and it glides on so nicely and actually stays on all day.

You all have the potential to be what you wanna be.

You can’t take anything online personally, especially if it is negative. You can have 10 positive comments, but the one negative comment will get to you.

Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they’re hallucinating

The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it’ll be paraded round Sotheby’s by people wearing white gloves.

Omni is not a science magazine. It is a magazine about the future…Omni was sui generis. Although there were plenty of science magazines over the years…Omni was the first magazine to slant all its pieces toward the future. It was fun to read and gorgeous to look at.

Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.

I want people to look at my films and say ‘Wow, she’s a good actress’, and I know I’ll have to work hard for that.

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they’ve read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators

If you look at the history of advertising, most of them were Jews, so it was only a matter of time before ‘Mad Men’ explored that area of advertising.