I never really wanted to be a model. But when the opportunity came, I grabbed it.

Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated.

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

I feel I've made the transition from model to actress, but I'm not that secure about it. Lauren Hutton, Jennifer O'Neill - we all know that a few films don't mean all that much.

I had very little confidence in myself as an actress.

I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people.

If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.

You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

In Sweden, only exceptional actresses get major film parts.

I think most models, when they start out, are insecure. And you become the focus of a lot of people's attention, so outside validation becomes too important.

Music escapes from words: that is its purpose, and its majesty.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.

That is why we live in a world where there are so many wars and so much destruction. This is an arena of power.

Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.

They're on you day and night. Their oversight is just too extreme [. . .] That's why our 10-year loan, we paid it back in three years. We couldn't stand the government. The bureaucracy kills you.

The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one’s own character.

Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result.

Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It’s a modern Republican thing.

The best way to uplift our own lives is to do all we can to uplift the lives of others.