Hollywood is a very small world; the people who matter matter, and the people who don't matter are just like nothing.

Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.'

Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful.

You write your life story by the choices you make.

It has nothing to do with clothing or makeup. Just put your shoulders back and chin up, and face the world with pride.

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'

I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.

Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

Peace doesn’t deny difficulty, but it has an inner calm and quietness even while enduring the difficulty.

Open confession is good for the soul.

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.

Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

As a rule, the man who can do all things equally well is a very mediocre individual.

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.

As a genre-bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers on its promises.

Study Bach. There you will find everything.

Spend your energy on things you believe in, and do them honestly and to the best of your ability.

If I don't have room for an item, I put it in warehouses.