My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.

Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.

Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

No matter how far you have come... No matter how you survived your checkered past... Sometimes, you simply have to make a choice.

Reading is entering into another world and leaving a little bit more educated when finished.

This haze of blood must subside, the palace must collapse under the weight of the riches it conceals, the orgy must finish and the time come to awaken.

Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain, so I spare you the inside view of my heart.

I will die, but not retire.

The world does not need a better definition of issues, or better planning or project management. It needs the issues and the plans to have more of an impact, which is the promise of engagement.

The Court today holds the Congress may say that some of the poor are too poor even to go bankrupt. I cannot agree.

I'm not a guy that loves a lot of rehearsal, but it depends. It depends what it would be.

One response to feeling abandoned is to abandon yourself.

I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century.