A woman's life can really be a succession of lives each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge and each marked off by some intense experience.

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

I'm not a beautiful woman. I'm nothing to look at, so the only thing I can do is dress better than anyone else.

You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.

I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.

I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.

I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.

Never explain, never complain.

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.

I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.

All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me forward.

When I'm wrong I'm like the Emperor on the Death Star thinking he'll turn Luke. Yet, when I'm right I'm a Jedi like my father before me.

To make mistakes is human, but to profit from them is divine.

Because I was never a 'where do you see yourself in five years' person. I had no idea, and I didn't have a checklist, which really creates a lot less stress in your life.

Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.

What I love about theatre is that it disappears as it happens.

Being receptive, being able to listen openly and well, is a crucial skill for creative problem-solving.

North Carolina, particularly the 8th District, has long played a key role in our Nation's military forces.

To hell with the cost, if it's a good story, I'll make it.