I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.

I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

People can get crazier as they get older. I can just be weird whenever I want, and there's the freedom of not caring what people think.

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.

Dreams are, by definition cursed with short life spans.

There is no human-like god. If there were, he'd be as silly as you.

Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.

I'm a huge television fan, in general. I love TV. I love movies. I always have. It's what I do, and I love it.

There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

I really got the best of education , and arts and music and summer camp. I had it great.

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.

No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.

India has always maintained that there will be no third party in Indo-Pak talks. Hurriyat cannot be a party.

If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.