But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme.

There are no rebels in the cinema business.

I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.

I do not consider myself beautiful.

I’m no dynamic career woman. I don’t network or do lunch – I work because I have to. My job does not define me, but I try to do it well.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

I know my sound, and I have to be true to who I am as an artist, even though I want be real cool, and make really cool music.

I've got wealth and fame but I haven't changed my roots.

We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy

An exile, ill in heart and frame,-- A wanderer, weary of the way;-- A stranger, without love's sweet claim On any heart, go where I may!

Somebody has to keep score and I decided I was going to do it. I'm a born score-keeper and I realize, like an umpire, that my decisions may cause distress.

Access is vital in lobbying. If you can't get in your door, you can't make your case.

I need a prison in order to dream of being free.

Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.