I don't like to spend money when I'm traveling. I like to go places like Hawaii and not spend money. I splurge on time.

I have two older brothers and they were a huge part of life; we were very close. We used to run around and get into trouble. That’s what I came from - that exploring nature.

My dream role is to play in a story of how the Joker became the Joker, and I would play the young Heath Ledger.

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

My life was lucky so that I met, I loved (and disappointed) only outstanding people.

I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years.

I lost in '96, in case the word hadn't trickled out, and so I made a few commercials.

When your first baby drops her pacifier, you sterilize it. When your second baby drops her pacifier, you tell the dog: 'Fetch!'

Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.

Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?

Ningauble shrugged. You're a hero. You should know.

It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong.

She tips her chin up and looks at me with that Abnegation stubbornness I know so well. She may have left them, but they are what’s making her strong.