As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary.

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

I don’t think that because I’m not married it’s made my life any less. That old-maid myth is garbage.

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.

Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

A beautiful idea can give you immortality—not success or money.

All communication must lead to change

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.

Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.

Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world.

Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.

The salvation of birds and beasts, oneself included - this is the object of Shakyamuni's religious austerities.

That's why I tried to kill myself when I was a student [in Yale]. I thought I was the only one there.

I remember writing a paper on human evolution in 1944, and I simply left Piltdown out. You could make sense of human evolution if you didn't try to put Piltdown into it.

So, mistletoe, in fact, symbolizes mistletoe.