I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream, it would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work.

Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.'

Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful.

You write your life story by the choices you make.

It has nothing to do with clothing or makeup. Just put your shoulders back and chin up, and face the world with pride.

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'

I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.

Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.

No one tries to stone a tree whose fruit is not ripe.

And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

Travel teaches as much as books.

Ultimately, the reward is the process - the process of photographing and discovering and trying to understand why and what am I photographing.

But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart.

I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States.

EXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains.

I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.

It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.