I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?

It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene

You’re not too smart, are you? I like that in a man

I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny

I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs

This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

Light another’s path and the universe will light your own.

Anyway, I have long had a very definite tendency to tune out the moment I come anywhere near either a pulpit or a soapbox.

When dreaming is better than reality we're livingWhat's the sense of waking up in a nightmare?

A question which can be answered without prejudice to the government is not a fit question to ask.

I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it.

I think that the minute that you have a backup plan, you've admitted that you're not going to succeed.

Remember me when I am dead and simplify me when I'm dead.

It's not up to anyone else to make me give my best.

When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits, our self image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern.