I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.

I don't really want to do things that I feel like are going to send out a message that I don't really want to sign up for.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

I feel that it's important to fail now and again. For instance, if I go for a job and I don't get it, that makes me not a better person, but more balanced, more aware of what life is really like.

I edit my own stories to death. They eventually run and hide from me.

You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.

Someday you will know that the heart is not always as wise as it is strong. - Uncle Eddie

Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.

I have a hard time watching myself.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.

Ric Flair, you once called me a woman. Well, what I want to know is, how does it feel to get beat by a woman?

I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.