I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career.

I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged.

I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.

When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.

I love being a woman and I love being feminine.

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.

What I know in my heart is that women and girls on the ground are powerful and that they are leaders.

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.

Sleep was a vehicle for passing the time, for avoiding the present. It was a trolley for the depressed, the impatient, and the dying.

[Religion is] a fantasy [and is] completely empty of any explanatory content. It is also evil.

Change is what people fear most.

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

Well that's what I generally do with books - I read them.

If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.

Wedlock is a narrow business.

Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.