Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.

It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention

I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it.

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.

I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.

Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.

I never dreamed I'd like any city as well as London. San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted fogs.

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.

I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting

Being amongst rough lives and confusion does not make you less, it only makes your beauty shine out more clearly.

She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.

This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it.

... you cannot shake hands with the Devil and not get sulphur on your sleeve.

Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?

There either is a god or there is not; there is a 'design' or not.

The arts give us our identity as a community; they also draw new people, fresh visions, and renewable economic opportunity to our community.

For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl. [Ger., Denn ein wackerer Mann verdient ein begutertes Madchen.]

The single minded ones, the monomaniacs, are the only true achievers

Jehovah was not a moral god. He had all the vices and he lacked all the virtues. He generally carried out all his threats, but he never faithfully kept a promise.