A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you.

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.

Nothing ever happened except God.

I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes.

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

Everyone knew in the 1950s why a girl from a nice family left home. The meaning of her theft of herself from her parents was clear to all - as well as what she'd be up to in that room of her own.

Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.

We tend to make up the people we fall in love with

I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved.

We derive a lot of the reality of ourselves through interactions with others.

Sacrificing everything for one's craft is something some people can't help. They can't help themselves. They must do it. They're driven to do it.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Spring is proof that there is beauty in new beginnings.

If I could just write it down in a piece of paper, then maybe she could get a decent night's sleep, eat a little of her dinner. Maybe she could have a minute's worth of peace.

Like your tastebuds, desires and goals are ever-changing. What used to work, might not do it for you anymore. The question is: Do you have the guts to do something about it?

People have to realize that dieting is not a sprint, it's a marathon. If you celebrate the small victories, you will eventually win the war.

I tried on 250 bathing suits in one afternoon and ended up havinglittle scabs up and down my thighs, probably from some of those withsequins all over them.

I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.

If Love Were Oil, / I'd Be About a Quart Low.

Nothing comes from without. All things come from within.

Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear. And I beg them not to imitate me, because I'm not a good actor.