It's very difficult to marry into another civilization.

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 will do what I must to protect you. If you were seriously hurt…Don’t make me live with that. Don’t make me have to survive your death.

We hated each other so well and loved each other so badly...

Utopia never really is. And the perfection we seek will always disappoint.

You are not dead, until every person who knew you is dead as well." Where did I hear that? It doesn't matter. There is a village in my head.

I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.

When diplomacy ends, War begins.

Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.

Most senators are just going to work and trying to do a job.