My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene

I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?

You’re not too smart, are you? I like that in a man

I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well

I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny

I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs

This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life.

Cattle... it called us cattle...We're hamburger, you mean.

There's only one thing you can do: Toss your pebble in the river, watch it ripple, and know you have moved the ocean.

And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the world beyond recall.

There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

Ten out of ten people die, so don't take life too seriously.

Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

I was absolutely a non-starter at games. My report for rugby said, 'Nigel's chief contribution is his presence on the field.' I used to pray for rain and sometimes it did rain - and we played anyway.

A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest. I think that kind of thing is an abuse of history.

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.