I've always had a hunger for realizing myself through my career.

It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.

I've had a long life and a lot of relationships and not one of them do I wish - well, I take that back - there are a couple I could have done without.

I always did think I would be married and settled down by now but maybe I ain't ready.

I just never was the marrying kind.

I notice that most of the men who tease me about my hair, don't have any.

I love playing someone who just skates by and does anything she wants.

I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.

I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.

It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

He was finding it ruinously expensive to be rich.

As long as there are living human beings, there will be language and stories.

Nature is neither reasonable nor just. Nature is exact.

I love your hills and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; but oh, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating!

I think I cry when I'm angry. I let it go that way.

Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anaesthetic, a shot to keep the wonder away.

I killed a lot of Germans, and I am only sorry I didn't kill more.

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.