People can get crazier as they get older. I can just be weird whenever I want, and there's the freedom of not caring what people think.

I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.

I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.

Dreams are, by definition cursed with short life spans.

There is no time to waste in life and there is no cut and paste as well, only copy and paste – you can only emulate others

I seek spirituality and self-knowledge.

We are always learning

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit.

I want a new past,new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to start over in every possible way.

When you resist doing what you know needs done, it is difficult. Find a mental way to enjoy it, and just do it, and it is easy.

The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.