But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.

The way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon.

What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.

I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships.

I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand. And that's how I like it to be.

I've been doing a lot of hiking, which I love

Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.

But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

I just can't eat without my sunglasses.

No, I am who I am. Im not going to change for anybody.

Whenever you move, I think you lose your history.

When a writer's heart is filled with the music of her soul, her words sing.

When they laugh, it sounds like confetti.

It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.

You do not know just what you've been forgiven.

The Manifesto was a cowardly proceeding, the more I thought of it the less I liked it.

We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.

It's not what the price of gold is that matters, but rather how much stuff it will buy.

I really love beautiful, well-made clothes. I don't shop [a lot], so I tend to have pieces for a long time. I like mixing vintage with newer designers.

When I used Claudia [Cardinale] for example, in Once Upon a Time in the West, she represented the birth of American matriarchy. Because women had enormous weight in America.

In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.