Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

What you call mistakes and failures are valuable experiences.

I don't fear anyone. We don't come to play in this sport.

Eternal superiority of the Dandy. What is the Dandy?

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

I've done four movies. I've done seven albums. So I feel like music has always been a part of my life; acting is something I'm learning.

I think most human beings, even if you're in a situation that's constricting or complicated or hard, they try to survive.

Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.

If you ever feel distressed during your day - call upon our Lady - just say this simple prayer: 'Mary, Mother of Jesus, please be a mother to me now.' I must admit - this prayer has never failed me.

When the woman is getting paid drastically less than the male, that whole family is impacted.