People believe what they want to believe.

People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.

I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.

I did Polyester, and I dont regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.

John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off. It's not real.

I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy.

I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.

I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.

Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.

The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I had to learn while doing, and it was really difficult.

All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.

...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death.

Living a natural life is living in dominion of a darkened mind

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

I have never been sexually aroused by a man. But I have yet to kiss Johnny Depp, so you never know.

She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.

I hope I get the bliss. And I know I'm going to have to work for it. But I've got to say, really, I have no kind of, can I say "secular religiosity"? ... I don't have a denominational sight.

One who believes all of a book would be better off without books

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.