I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract.

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.

People who think about the past have no future.

One of the nicest things about living in America is the fact that sooner or later you are practically bound to get an award of some sort or other.

What Americans call cross-ventilation, the English call draughts.

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

She never sets foot out of her apartment or her past.

[When asked if her husband was still living:] It's a matter of opinion.

There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.

My worst fault is my belief that if you put bills unopened behind a picture frame, there is no need to pay them.

Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.

I think about how maybe it's not things that change but people that change, and maybe that's the change everyone is really talking about.

It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.

Like every mother, my wish - every birthday - is for my children to stay healthy (and) for my family to remain healthy.

This cannot be the United States being the air force for Shia militias, or a Shia on Sunni Arab fight.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

War ends only when people love each other.

According to Time magazine, global warming is 33% worse than we thought. You know what that means? Al Gore is one-third more annoying than we thought.

You may have made a lot of wrong choices, but you’ve also made a lot of choices that were right. Focus on your good qualities. Focus on your victories. Get off the treadmill of guilt.

It's very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can't hear the inflections in your voice.