In my end is my beginning

If I could be anything in the world I would want to be a teardrop because I would be born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips.

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.

I fear the prayers of John Knox more than all the assembled armies of Europe

No more tears now; I will think about revenge.

Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England.

No one provokes me with impunity.

Never have I had such assistants to disrobe me, and never have I put off my clothes before such a company

I fear John Knox's prayers more than an army of ten thousand men.

Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive.

I write the words God put on my mind.

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

I've gotten jobs because I'm a woman, and I've lost jobs because I'm a woman. So just do the best work you can. It won't go unnoticed.

When you're an actress, there are only a few times you can really get paid. One of them is doing a sequel. They can't fake you or hire another actor to play you.

There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

WhenIWasYourAge: It took a week to learn whether your photos came out okay.

Sometimes family was the cruelest form of love there was, for no one could hurt you more than the people who created you.

Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.