It's your body, your life. Do what you want to do.

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.

I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.

There are many ways to be a mother. I have a lot of young actors I mentor, and my nieces and my nephews need a lot of love.

I'm certainly not a prude.

I'm a woman of a certain age who doesn't have kids and never really settled down ... I enjoy kids but not for long periods. I think they're adorable and funny and sweet, and then I have a headache.

When I see a woman who looks her age, she's radiating something, and it's life.

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life; I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.

That's what life is - you follow where your heart leads you - at least I do.

Strongest pain often gives the deepest pleasure.

I think Peter was murdered because of what he found out about the company.

A lot of people listening to music now don't listen to the songs or lyrics at all. They just go, "Good tones..." and that's it.

My hair was too big. And my head is big, and my hair is big, so my helmet gets too small. So I have to make a haircut.

You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob, And a ring-and-thimble cake.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping start on the ladder upward.

I knew that I wanted to create rich themes, and something that people might really relate to emotionally. That was the quest, authenticity, and then just to make the audience feel something.

We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.