Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

People can get crazier as they get older. I can just be weird whenever I want, and there's the freedom of not caring what people think.

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.

I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.

When I say time must be converted, what I'm saying is that seconds must be converted, minutes must be converted, hours must be converted and days must be converted.

Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

No achievement is too small if it leads to another.

Trying their wings once more in hopeless flight: Blind moths against the wires of window screens. Anything. Anything for a fix of light. X. J. Kennedy, "Street Moths, " The Lords of Misrule

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

I want the public to see my email. I asked State to release them. They said they will review them for release as soon as possible.

"By analogy, if we were to develop a soccer team, then we would not invite basketball and volleyball players to the try outs. We would invite soccer players to apply."

We are called to show utter commitment to the God who is revealed in Jesus and to all those to whom His invitation is addressed.

I have a deep-seated respect for parrots. As gifted as I am with all other wildlife, parrots have this uncanny desire to kill me. I'm not sure why, but they're like my kryptonite!

Is there room in my heart for you to follow your heart?