I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.

I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth.

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.

Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.

God has revealed Himself in the Book called the Bible.

It is not important how successful you are, the only thing that matters is how good a person you are...

The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.

The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.

MGM never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles, but cast me in programme pictures.

Marriage is god's way to ensure there are few great men

The Eagle, he was lord above