I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting

It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention

I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it.

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.

I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.

Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.

Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.

I never dreamed I'd like any city as well as London. San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted fogs.

My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.

Bonnie, believe in me. I’ll save you.I remember how to fly.

Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.

Social dynamic theory is philosophy, not politics. There can't be only one correct answer, or there would only be one book." Sharon L Reddy, Worldcon, 1995.

You can hate a person with your whole body, but love is a stubborn thing, it clings on in your heart.

Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

still loved but deprived of grace

What is gone before is gone. All you have now are the results of your actions.

Having purpose and vision during retirement is one of the most important determinants of mental, social, spiritual, and physical well-being in later life.

There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live.