As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.

A lot of men are very possessive and they want to control you. But as you grow older, you attract people who are on your wavelength and who understand who you are.

I do think I learned to accept myself through the eyes of others when I was young because I wasn't brought up to think that I was beautiful or told I was beautiful.

I think there are very few people who have a real style, a real personality, and real beauty.

My ultimate goal is to become a saint.

That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen.

I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas.

I'd never even thought about compromise when I worked in my studio. The major distinction is in the priority of who I ultimately wanted to please: myself or the audience.

If Iran was a stock, you folks should go out and buy it right now.

A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.

I call myself a character actor all my life. I've done a certain amount as a leading man, but character actors in my estimation - it's a lost art these days.

There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.

If death is inevitable, one should try to die well.

I'm going to search for my star until I find it. It's hidden in the drawer of innocence, wrapped in a scarf of wonder.

There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more.