I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

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.

Our greatest mistakes, if we look at them, and digest them, and interact with them, and learn from them… they can be the greatest moments of our lives.

Religion suits everyone’s needs, believers, agnostics, atheists and god, just in case it exists

When large numbers of people share their joy in common the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

As in heaven Your will is punctually performed, so may it be done on earth by all creatures, particularly in me and by me.

Be the witness of your thoughts.

In retailing, the formula happens to be a basic liking for human beings, plus integrity, plus industry, plus the ability to see the other fellow's point of view.

Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent.

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.