If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there's been no reason not to try anything.

It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene

I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?

You’re not too smart, are you? I like that in a man

I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny

I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs

Be so good they can't ignore you.

Labor is sacrificed on the inflation rates altar of oblation.

Take assertiveness training, get paid what you're worth, join a consciousness raising-group.

The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

Let us resolve by God's grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.

We are meant to go through this life with a partner, someone who picks us up when we're down.

You are truly Satan's sequined spawn.

You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring.

The only way to learn compassion is through your heart; you have to back up and pass through your own pain.

If we think we are tired or ill, it is only because we have done something to unbalance the bodily conductivity of the universal electric current which motivates it.