Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.'

Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful.

You write your life story by the choices you make.

It has nothing to do with clothing or makeup. Just put your shoulders back and chin up, and face the world with pride.

When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'

I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.

Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

You can't control how other people see you or think of you. But you have to be comfortable with that.

Success doesn’t come with ease. As a matter of fact, the darkest lie you may have been told is that you will reap in abundance when you have sowed nothing. It is a big lie!

All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Without the Blessed Sacrament a position like mine would be intolerable.

The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see.

I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ.

With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone.

Wherever we are, God's in that moment, God's speaking to us, and if we've just got our ears open and our antennas up, there's no lack of inspiration. He's not silent. We just have to be listening.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

The structure serves the people, people don't serve the structure