I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.

I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.

I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.

And I didn't. That's why my career was very short-lived.

I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.

So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.

And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.

It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies.

TV cameras seem to add ten pounds to me. So I make it a policy never to eat TV cameras.

It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.

Positive disintegration is the sublimation of suffering

The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.

One of the virtues of the NHS... it doesn't worry you about money at the moment when you're least capable of doing anything about it.

Nationalism is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.

Somewhere inside we do know everything about ourselves. There is no real forgetting. Perhaps we know somewhere, too, about all there is to come.

The most-praised generation goes to work

I wish I could escape into some alter-ego, just so I could feel more comfortable onstage.

I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.

Art is lies that tell the truth.

For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs... why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?