I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices, I'm going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the block.

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.

Intensity is so much more becoming in the young.

I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor.

Acting is a child's prerogative. Children are born to act. Usually, people grow up and out of it. Actors always seem to me to be people who never quite did grow out of it.

It is upsetting that many people don't seem to observe what's happening to the environment, what's happening in terms of global warming, the loss of habitats and wild things.

I'm a risk-taker. I like to test myself.

My hope for the planet is my children and grandchildren.

There can be no one best way of organizing a business.

My daughter, the one who lives nearby, is raising her children to be very much aware. We went on a nature walk on Monday; I'm learning so much from her.

I remember when I first won the Academy Award, and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again.

Success isn't specially reserved for anyone

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.

George Clooney is on the program tonight. Next week at this time I will be in a hardware store watching them mix paint.

Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the sake of technique.

I really don't need the public's money. I'd like to have something on the internet with charitable donation optional, where anyone can download my music for free.

Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.

For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation.

She was afraid, but she couldn't just sit around waiting for someone to save her. She had to try to save herself, try to figure it out.

I don't know, man, I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.

Change is the investor's only certainty.