I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

I don't break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.

Since when does a militarily occupied people have the responsibility for a peace movement?

His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.

There is only one thing I can say about the Shah- he knows how to draw a crowd.

In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive. And at the end of life, we need others to survive. But here's the secret, in between, we need others as well.

Let's face it, the Obama administration was handed a pretty poor deal from the previous administration.

Shall I project a world?

In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'