I remember seeing some little wrinkles in my early 30s and thinking they were interesting. But you know the horror of it is that the screen image has to be perfect

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it

There are several paths one can take, but not every path is open to you.

I've spent my life pursuing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

I don't think actresses' lives in general are very good

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.

My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body.

Even the most stoic of men will be childlike at least once in a day.

I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone

Empowered Women 101: If he has to destroy other people to raise your self esteem and level of trust then he is not a son of God and guess what your not a daughter of God for letting him do it.

I don't like fights. I don't like aggressive people.

This is not good. This is not right. My feet stick out of bed all night. And when I pull them in, oh dear! My head sticks out of bed out here!

Nothing really known can continue to be acutely fascinating.

However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the mind.

Great men may die, but there ideas won't.

I have to remember to not criticize other networks for other shows when I'm doing interviews because some day I'm going to be going to them, looking for a job, I'm assuming.

Everyone has the right to go on a vacation without kids if they want.

Five hundred souls. I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I'd throw them over my shoulder. It was only the the children I carried in my arms.

Art is not 'about.' Art is.