I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill.

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family.

I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.

Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.

My first vocation was dance.

On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.

The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.

My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.

Life is there to attain Liberation while going through the experience of it. It should not be ‘above normal’ or ‘below normal, ’ it should be ‘normal’.

..he read whatever came his way, as if it had been ordained by fate, ..

According to my doctor it's okay to drink like a fish - as long as I drink what the fish drinks.

God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about.

a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "I am not the kind of person I want to be." It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.

Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.

I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.

Belief creates its own experience; therefore, such an experience is not true.

The snakes are always against the prohibition of the poisons; and the arms traders, of the arms!