I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.

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.

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

Dare to ask questions. This is the only way to find answers to your curiosity.

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.

Better is the enemy of good.

A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.

I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.

You have to have a strong title. It's got to say something.

Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.

You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back.

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.