I try to hang on to as much mystery as possible. How can we go through our lives not wanting to have any element of surprise?’

I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged.

I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.

When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.

I love being a woman and I love being feminine.

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.

What I know in my heart is that women and girls on the ground are powerful and that they are leaders.

I've been dead over seventy years and still when I hear a woman scream, I find myself standing, listening, wanting to help and unable to do anything except watch.

I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.

Anyway, the fetish crowd, compared to some of the people that hung out with the skinheads, was all pussycats.

No one can insult you without your permission.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

The Beatles were basically a vocal band.

The silence of the envious is too noisy.

'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.

I love to show off my ability in a nice way.