As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.

Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.

You never know how things will turn out. And you can't really say it turned out wrong. Whatever happens, happens. The important thing is that you followed your gut.

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.

In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset.

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

Eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

Always let people see a reflection of God in you

Viktor Frankl the Concentration camp survivalist said no matter how much mental or physical abuse had been given nobody could cause him to think something he didn't want to think

You are judged by what you produce, not what you said, intended or wanted to produce. It's Friday, add up the numbers. How'd you do?

Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write.

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.

Why should I copy this owl, this sea urchin? Why should I try to imitate nature? I might just as well try to trace a perfect circle.

Peace is the simplicity of heart, serenity of mind, tranquility of soul, the bond of love.

I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.

Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.