It is with passion and dedication that I will be attentive to the needs of women and fight relentlessly for their rights

It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life.

Marriage functions best when both partners remain somewhat unmarried.

I never felt scandal and confession were necessary to be an actress. I've never revealed my self or even my body in films. Mystery is very important.

I'm no syllogism incarnate, but my wife makes me look like Immanuel Kant.

What's incredible is that I'm 75 and still working.

But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic.

And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director.

And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.

The truth is that James, like many other great writers and artists, had chosen his own loyalties and nationality. His true country, his home, was that of the imagination.

I keep coming back to certain books, and you—to try to find myself again

My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.

Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time.

You've got to lose your passion for dumbness.

It isn't always easy between us. I admit that. But it's right between us, always.

Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.

I think hope is key, in life and in art.

Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.

The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.