People came to my parents' parties because they were going to have fun and, if lucky, our mother would belly dance. What they didn't know was that the hostess made sure every morsel placed in front of them was pure and without anything artificial, no matter what the cost.

Don't be someone else's slogan because you are poetry.

To me, true beauty isn't something that will wash off in the shower at the end of the day. It's something that's still there, before you go to bed and wake up in the morning. And, you know, they always say that's inner beauty, but it is.

Motherhood is beautiful. Everything [my son] does makes me so happy.

The first time I met [Sylvester Stallone], he had golf tees up his nose. So I figured we were going to be OK.

Poop humor is fun. If you do the toilet scenes well and commit to them, they can be really, really powerful.

I did love that scene in the movie [ "Our Brand Is Crisis"] because it's like "The Wizard of Oz." You see the backstage action of politics. You have access to see behind the curtain. You see how it's all one big advertisement.