• “I’m a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.”
“I don’t want to ever be pigeon-holed, to be thought of as, ‘You can’t be in that kind of genre’. I’m willing to fail but I want to be given a chance to try. That’s what still keeps me working at my age. When I don’t have that curiosity or desire to do it any more, than I just won’t.”
• “We’re always together. It’s a very adventurous, extraordinary place to be: incredibly raw, incredibly dangerous and you’re very much out at sea … When you commit to someone like that you live and die together by that decision.”
• “I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that’s what I’ve learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.”
• “I have been an avid Oprah watcher for as long as I can remember, sharing laughs and tears with millions upon millions of viewers, all with whom she has touched in various ways. She has such a genuine compassion and intellect that is universally embraced. While I’m sad to watch this chapter in Oprah’s career come to a close, I look forward to watching her legacy continue through OWN.”
Karl Lagerfeld – “She is not the new Hepburn, the new Garbo, the new Kelly, the new Taylor. One simply cannot compare her to the past.”
Keith Urban – “[Nicole is] an extremely pure spirit. A really, really extraordinarily rare, I think, pure spirit. I’ll spend the rest of my life trying to find the right words because, you know, words are limiting.”