I never took to Hollywood.

It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene

I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?

You’re not too smart, are you? I like that in a man

I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny

I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs

I have butchered many men. All are innocent and equaled when they are on the table. All are exquisite and grotesque. -Dr. Spencer Black

You business exist because your customers allow you to exist. Never forget it.

I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.

Imagination might be scarier than reality ... but not by much.

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

Grass is growing on the Front Bench.

I believe that the polling data that shows people give Obama 53% approval, I happen to think the polls are right. I just think people are not being honest with the pollster.

God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.