It's good to remind yourself that you're lucky to be working at all. It's very easy to get into the mindset of ingratitude and I battle with it all the time.

Id like an omelet named after me.

My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident.

Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.

Yes, years of compromise and disappointment have added depth to my acting.

People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.

Ive gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.

Hollywood is my domestic idyll.

Don't die with a bottle of champagne in your fridge.

Ive always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise.

Some won’t appreciate you no matter how much you do for them. Release yourself. Go where you’re appreciated and understood. –

Every child deserves good parents and a beautiful world full of opportunities and possibilities.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it

Forgive and be happy. That is the ancient secret?the only wisdom ever to be attained.

I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing.

I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.

I think you'll find a significant number of people who decide not to enter competitions because their music just won't fit in that world.

By the supernatural miracle of God's grace I stand justified, not because I am sorry for my sin, not because I have repented, but because of what Jesus has done.

To become a photographer leave your house first.