I prefer younger men. In some ways, they are much more open to a woman being stronger and independent then some of the men my age.

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.

I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.

There are many ways to be a mother. I have a lot of young actors I mentor, and my nieces and my nephews need a lot of love.

I'm certainly not a prude.

I'm a woman of a certain age who doesn't have kids and never really settled down ... I enjoy kids but not for long periods. I think they're adorable and funny and sweet, and then I have a headache.

When I see a woman who looks her age, she's radiating something, and it's life.

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life; I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.

That's what life is - you follow where your heart leads you - at least I do.

Stand up for what is right, regardless of who is committing the wrong.

Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

My love life couldn't be more nonexistent if Julius was all all-girls' boarding school with a moat full of alligators around it.

You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.

What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?

Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.

Selling is nothing more than asking questions and waiting for an answer.

The kidnapping, the kiss. I brought him here, after all. I rescue him an pulled him into this new life, a life of freedom and feeling.

I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.

Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.