I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

All that I can truly have: life, strength and time!

3 P’s are my soulmates: Pain, Prose and Poetry.

Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.

Nobody has to lose for me to succeed and that is a unique job. Everybody wins, horse wins, people win, I win.

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.

The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.

I'll always be figuring out what parts I want to play, because I want to play all parts. I'm a very hungry actress.

I then carefully searched through the pages until I was able to find the verse that was crystal clear... It read: "Rejoice always."

You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I‘ll never recover.

You had to make everything much more truthful for the camera. With the stage it's a given that it's going to be theatrical.