In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhap-piness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.

I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

I went to Kerala in India, to learn Ayurveda, which was fantastic.

I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.

I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.

I got as little as a $75 a week when I started.

The most important thing is to remain active and to love what you are doing.

I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.

I'm not mean, I'm honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth.

It must be that I am not made to be a dead man, but these places and this discussion seem like a dream, and not a dream dreamed by me but by someone else still to be born.

Mental energy is powerful. Direct its strength towards our positive aspirations rather than empowering unsubstantiated fears.

If you let fear make decisions for you, fear will make good decisions - but only for its own sake, not yours. p. 161

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.

Whether you get hurt by weapons or feelings, it hurts when you get shot in the heart.

It's okay, Ig." said Fang. "Just give it your best shot." Sometimes the Fangster is incredibly supportive, just not with me.

Formula 1 would be a paradise without the media.

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.