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.

Dreams are, by definition cursed with short life spans.

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

Reflection may be essential to a scholar, but it’s taboo in social intercourse.

Oh sharp diamond, my mother! I could not count the cost of all your faces, your moods that present that I lost. Sweet girl, my deathbed, my jewel-fingered lady...

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.

[ The aim to be big] is not a joke about my size. It's just that I'm a dreamer, but I'm following through with it. I believe anyone can do it as long as they focus and have a game plan.

Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races.

I like the 'Alive' part. Now I've made it. Wait until you see the roles I could take after this. You're going to see my gut hanging over, plus 22lbs. It'll be a whole new kind of sexy!

I love all of the government conspiracy stuff. I love all of the shady backroom White House dealings that are going on, and all of the politics involved. That kind of stuff is just fascinating to me.

When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do.

No one believes an hypothesis except its originator but everyone believes an experiment except the experimenter.