I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

Nuance is anathema to his thinking, which is why he can maintain such fidelity to his ideas in a-hundred-and-forty-character bursts.

The heart is the only sacred home.

When we are deeply passionate about something, the obstacles or challenges are diminished by sheer will and desire.

I'm agnostic. By definition, I'm unsure of what to believe in, but I'm also borderline-capable of believing in anything and everything, or nothing at all... and I want to believe in something.

I'm pretty much a workaholic, but when you're doing what you love it's hard to think of a reason to stop.

Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.

The California proposition [Prop. 187] is one I would agree with. That's the easiest way to put it.

Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.

The fallyng out of faithfull frends is the renuyng of loue.

True power is stillness within motion.