Acting is such a bizarre way of life. Unless you're really passionate about it, you should give it up. Don't beat yourself up.

My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.

You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. Dating is not really something familiar. I've never really been a dater.

I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is.

It's always great to have another chance at something.

I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology.

Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.

I hate parties. I really don't like public events. I hate dressing up. I am the worst celebrity ever!

I want to go working with good people on something that's good, because otherwise it's a big waste of time. I don't have that much time.

When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

I just like sitting at home, chilling and watching a movie.

Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.

That is the best Government, which best provides for war.

I couldn't remember my name for weeks. I'd be at the theater and hear them calling 'Miss Stanwyck, Miss Stanwyck,' and I'd think 'Where is that dame? Why doesn't she answer? By crickie, it's me!

Sachin is cricket's God.

The secret to a great marriage is having a great husband.

I try not to listen to a lot of music when I'm starting the recording process, because it can be so subtly influential.

God has not changed; and His ear is just as quick to hear the voice of real prayer, and His hand is just as long and strong to save; as it ever was.

I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.