Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

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.

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.

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.

His words were full of hope and threat. Like the stars.

Why let go of yesterday? Because yesterday has already let go of you.

Bad enough to make mistakes, without going ahead and marrying them.

I am prepared to sacrifice every so-called privilege I possess in order to have a few rights.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

Father doesn't think very sudden, but he thinks awful strong.

I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, but I think as I became more comfortable and knowledgeable about myself and what I wanted, I moved into acting.

I collect underwear from my travels. Lace, lingerie, bodysuits... they're like souvenirs.

I did not create my life, so I have no right to negate my life.

And in my flower-beds, I think, Smile the carnation and the pink.