What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising.

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it even amidst great pop music.

I've always believed that if you don't stay moving they will throw dirt on you.

I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.

Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies nobody would cast me as a romantic lead but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can.

It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.

When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry.

In fact my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris France that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist and believed blind eternal fate I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

I know one husband and wife who whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

I've always believed the two best anti-poverty programs are work and marriage.

A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.

In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican with God as my witness not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing.