I never pursued being 'famous.'

Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.

Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks.

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.

My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.

The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks

I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy.

To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.

The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.

When writing loses touch with the beautiful surface of the world, it loses its way. You always want to be in touch with how things look and what people say and what they call their dogs.

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

...the single destination of sanctity could admit of so many different avenues leading to it.

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

One day History will pass judgment on each of the nations at war; she will weigh their measure of errors, lies, and heinous follies. Let us try to make ours light before her!