Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

Never do nothing you wouldnt want printed on the front page of The New York Times.

If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything

We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.

You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.

Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?

Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.

I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward.

You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

Look at the sun sinkin' like a ship. Ain't that just like my heart, babe. When you kissed my lips?

Those have been the two biggest challenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt.

Well, I am not afraid of the word 'liberal.'

I'm strongly into the Bible; I'm strongly into God and religion.I'm pro-life and different things.

Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business.

Life is only available in the present moment.

My parents were hippies. They met at an ashram, where they were studying how to be enlightened.

There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled.

If a person has ten habits out of which nine are good and one bad, that bad one will destroy the good ones.