I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity

It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention

I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it.

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.

I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.

Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.

Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.

I never dreamed I'd like any city as well as London. San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted fogs.

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.

Make your destiny before your destiny makes you...

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

It's gratifying that people are watching that [Veep] intently and that hard. So it's been really nice and it's been really fun.

J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.

I'm a mom first, a singer second.

The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.

Keep your head in the clouds and your hands on the keyboard.

Put thou thy trust in God; In duty's path go on; Fix on His word thy steadfast eye; So shall thy work be done.

A movie is something you see, cinema is something that’s made.