At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers

It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene

I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?

You’re not too smart, are you? I like that in a man

I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny

I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs

When people judge they completely lose sight of the blessings on their own tables. Jealousy or conviction is a very dark room.

Act as if there is no chance of failure.

If Jesus looks too feminine to us, maybe it says more about our understanding of masculinity than it does about a possible conspiracy to feminize the church and men.

There was some part of me that never left that house. Rather, some part of the house that wouldn't leave me.

It is the doom of the Christian church to be always distracted with controversy. John Quincy Adams

Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.

Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.

The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer.

On Valentine's Day, I wired flowers for my mother-in-law, but she found the fuse.

The trick of successful investors is to sell when they want to, not when they have to.