I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is.

My darling girl, when are you going to understand that "normal" isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.

You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. Dating is not really something familiar. I've never really been a dater.

It's always great to have another chance at something.

I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology.

Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.

I hate parties. I really don't like public events. I hate dressing up. I am the worst celebrity ever!

I want to go working with good people on something that's good, because otherwise it's a big waste of time. I don't have that much time.

When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.

Acting is such a bizarre way of life. Unless you're really passionate about it, you should give it up. Don't beat yourself up.

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

May you live every day of your life.

One rash person in the right place and earth could be a sterile cinder in seconds, but that's been more-or-less true for a century.

A lie is a lieeven if everyone believes it.

Wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.

I don't sign contracts for my books.

It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. . . . Justice and liberty die quietly, because men first learn to ignore injustice and then no longer recognize it.

if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

Some people are born into wonderful families. Others have to find or create them. Being a member of a family is a priceless membership that we pay nothing for but love.

If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.