I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.

Halle Berry is here, whose win last year broke down barriers for unbelievably hot women.

I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right.

You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours.

I'm not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.

How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars

He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.