I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

People who believe they are ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the universe.

To exist is to change to change is to mature to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

How dare you have wino tell me not to do drugs.

A human can alter their field, but can't change the world.

When I'm acting in a film that I'm not producing, I stay to myself.

I am a Cajun Baby in a Texas girl, an all-American woman and a global goddess.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]

As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.

Declare not war against your emotions, or prepare for the inevitable defeat!