Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Children are like puppies: you have to keep them near you, and look after them, if you want their affection.

Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It's like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.

It's so unfair that we should die, just because we are born.

A divorcee is a women who got married so she didn't have to work, but now works so she doesn't have to get married.

[To reporter who telephoned with news of her Oscar:] If you are joking me, I will get up immediately and kill you wherever you are.

She'd just thrown gasoline on the fire. Now it was up to fandom to keep it burning.

Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.

I wanted to send a message to the television industry that excitement is not made of car chases.

And who are all these people? There weren't this many when I fell asleep." Alfie shrugged, indicating that the universe was mysterious and nothing would ever be fully understood.

I see the world for what it is, beyond the white and the black.

Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.

I believe truly that Canada is a living history and we're going through some of the most important time in this country's short 150 years.

The public should always be notified as soon as possible in the event of a leak or other emergency at a nuclear facility.

And sometimes you meet someone who doesn't see you any differently if you tell them. That is everything.

If you allow yourself to fully feel the life you're in - not conceptually, but viscerally in the present moment - then that is inherently meaningful.