I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.

I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

People can get crazier as they get older. I can just be weird whenever I want, and there's the freedom of not caring what people think.

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.

I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

Dreams are, by definition cursed with short life spans.

Love is divine force.

I know it's a cliche, but trust me on this. I once dated a Canadian. Canada = boring.

Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.

Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.

I wouldn't cut you out of my life Clary, any more than I would cut off my right hand and give it to someone as a Valentine's Day gift." Gross," said Clary. "Must you?" Simon grinned. "I must.

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person.

Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.

It ain't the heat, it's the humility.