I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.

I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.

There are many ways to be a mother. I have a lot of young actors I mentor, and my nieces and my nephews need a lot of love.

I'm certainly not a prude.

I'm a woman of a certain age who doesn't have kids and never really settled down ... I enjoy kids but not for long periods. I think they're adorable and funny and sweet, and then I have a headache.

When I see a woman who looks her age, she's radiating something, and it's life.

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life; I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.

That's what life is - you follow where your heart leads you - at least I do.

Because Filipinos are very creative and assiduous people, they will always find a way to make things happen.

Friends are those crazy people who keep coming back, in spite of being exposed to the real you.

Going through a long legal battle is not what you sign up for as a fighter.

The older I get, the more impressed I am with women. I have yet to meet a woman who is not strong. They don't exist.

I don't think you're going to be a success in anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics.

Freedom is when one hears the bell at seven o'clock in the morning and knows it is the milkman and not the Gestapo.

Dignity is more important than wealth.

Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?

I don't believe in balance, not in the classic way.

The world is like a mirror; if you smile at it, it smiles at you. I love to smile, and so in general, I definitely receive smiles in return.