I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.

I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

People can get crazier as they get older. I can just be weird whenever I want, and there's the freedom of not caring what people think.

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.

I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.

I always try to believe the best of everybody -it saves so much trouble.

Give me the avowed the erect and manly foe Bold I can meet perhaps may turn the blow But of all plagues good Heaven thy wrath can send Save save oh save me from the candid friend!

The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early.

I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see.

I think, being an actress, you know that you're getting old. I'm 44. I mean, an agent said when I turned 40, "It won't get better."

Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.

Prayer enables you to tap into God's wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what's going on.

I always run into these Ph.D.s. They write and write and write about sustainable development. Then these guys ask me, 'But, how do you do it?' They are scared to death to do anything.

remember that every fire will burn itself out, even without your help.

I'm not sure what the moral is here...I really just wanted to tell that story.