I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.

My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.

I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.

My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.

I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month.

A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.

Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.

I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.

When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star.

My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

Collaboration begins with focusing on the collective good rather than personal gain.

Flashlight beams danced crazily

It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.

Piety's hard enough to take among the poor who have to practice it. A rich man's piety stinks. It's insufferable.

In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail. As long as we're afraid to fail, we'll never come up with the big, bold ideas we need to solve these problems.

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they're running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me a story is as daunting a prospect as a novel.

I overhaul myself for my roles. Sooner or later, I will get my due.

The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is the soul.

You want me to be a man,older than you, who goes by the name of Roullard.