I have never had a current state of mind. My mind changes a great deal. I am very affected by any sorrow or sad thing, and I am very affected by joy and beauty.

The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.

Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it you're not even aware, only afterwards do you know you were happy.

Some very beautiful things get lost and forgotten. Just as I got lost.

The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.

I am an actress. I am not a movie star.

I admire people who are creative.

I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my case also on screen, you have to be true.

For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me.

I am sensitive to life, and somehow acting comes to me. I cant explain it.

I always considered myself the world's worst actress.

For the last few centuries, these jeweled fruits have been my constant and sole companions. The greatest treasure in all the world, as comfortless as light to the blind.

I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on.

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.

A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I'm not aware of them and I go on writing, only the writing probably isn't much good.

Experience is a great teacher, and sometimes a pretty teacher is a great experience.

To play is to yield oneself to a kind of magic.

I cannot judge what motivates people. We are all moved by one of four things or a combination of these four things: money, romance, recognition or survival.

You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.

They could not truly look dead, because they did not ever look alive.

Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeois concept. Feelings are overrated.