I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.

I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

I went to Kerala in India, to learn Ayurveda, which was fantastic.

I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.

I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.

I got as little as a $75 a week when I started.

The most important thing is to remain active and to love what you are doing.

Warren Beatty was one hell of a lover - but we fought like stray dogs

A lot of people don’t do well simply because they major in minor things.

Music is breath of life.

The quiet but inexorable breaking down of self-esteem is much more sinister - it’s violation of the soul.

I'm a character actor.

If I were wrong, wouldn't one be enough?

Our failures can leave behind pavement or potholes. Our ability to receive grace determines which it will be.

It's being a grown up, which I never figured out how to do, scrubbing the tub, and remembering to eat and shampoo my hair. It's the basics: I can write a whole book, but I cannot handle the basics.

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.

After working for 18 years, all of a sudden I became successful on a level where other people knew it. It's not a cat you can put back in the bag.