All art is quite useless.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy . . . well.

Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.

To get people to eat well don’t say a word about health, just cook fantastic food for them.

The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking.

Refraining from violence is not a sign of weakness in one's faith but a sign that one's faith is unshakeable

There are things you stand up for because it’s right.

You can spend the rest of your life being afraid of people rejecting you. You have to start by not rejecting yourself. You don’t deserve it.

I do love being an actress. The other stuff, the 'fame', well - you know what? - you don't actually have to buy into it if you don't want to.

Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.

We were not born to sue, but to command.