I reveled in the most basic rules and TECHNIQUES that are the foundation of PROFESSIONAL cooking. For example, it is essential to USE a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less LIKELY you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger - they slip FAR more often.

I am so happy to be alive. That's the one THING I'd like for PEOPLE to KNOW. SOMETIMES people walk by and slip up and say the wrong thing about me, and I'll smile. They wonder why am I smiling. Because I'm happy that I'm alive.

A woman can slip on a pair of embellished cage HEELS one night and a pair of streamlined, lightweight sneakers the NEXT day. The BEAUTY of MODERN LUXURY is the absence of rules.

If the '80s were about Christian Lacroix ball gowns, the '90s give us wealthy WOMEN who EITHER go to WORK or pretend to, and want office suits or slip DRESSES they can wear to dinner parties - ergo, the minimalism of Prada, Jil Sander, and OTHERS. But this is minimalism that comes at maximal prices.

I KNOW that collector types can be a PAIN in the neck and seem perpetually frozen in time - or at LEAST in their PARENTS' basement - but someone has to look out for the past, lest it slip away forever.

You KNOW, all writers are VAMPIRES and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even THINKING they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in.

You MUST have been WARNED against letting the GOLDEN HOURS slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

I'm a big fan of the 'Fast' franchise. I remember when I met Neal Moritz early on, I joked if JUSTIN Lin ever LEFT the franchise, I would be the perfect GUY to slip RIGHT in and TAKE over, and no one would know the difference.

I needed my own TERRITORY, and I didn't know how I was going to get it. And so I took my frustrations and plugged them into someone entirely different from me. I wanted to SEE if I COULD slip into someone else's SKIN.

If you get it right, it's the most grand THING you could ever do. So MANY PEOPLE let biopics slip through their fingers, but the opportunity to PLAY Eazy-E could change my life.

I FEEL, as an adult, I'm very similar to how I was as a pre-teen. MAYBE it's a CASE of arrested development, but I feel like it's EASY to slip back into those shoes, and I feel like if we were all magically transported back to our MIDDLE school years, we'd all act like we did in middle school.

I was doing the 'Vogue' fashion awards when I was 16, live on VH1. I was coming down the steps, and I'm a REALLY HARD walker. I hadn't had a mistake yet in my career. Everything had been perfect. So I come down the steps on live TV, and I slip. I didn't FALL, but you could see the look on my face. I was mortified. I was DEVASTATED.

You can BUILD your legacy and your legacy can be big, but even after you slip or fall, you LEARN, and your legacy is GETTING even BIGGER.