She didn't know that all her life would be spent gambling with the stark rigidity of words, words that were coin: save, spend and all the time George with his own counter had found her a way out.

Contrary to popular belief, English women do not wear tweed nightgowns.

A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.

People who think about the past have no future.

One of the nicest things about living in America is the fact that sooner or later you are practically bound to get an award of some sort or other.

What Americans call cross-ventilation, the English call draughts.

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

She never sets foot out of her apartment or her past.

[When asked if her husband was still living:] It's a matter of opinion.

There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.

I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract.

Look within, find strength for thy soul.

The power to heal is all in the hug.

It is not true that it is hard to govern Italy. It is useless.

She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.

I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

I've done the performing monkey stuff and massive breakdowns, it's just they weren't documented.

Every scar has a life of its own and a space in my heart.

If you start from a position of I'm a no-hoper, in a paradoxical kind of way you are not risking being vulnerable.

You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.

There's nothing that feels better than to do something nice for somebody. I mean nothing feels better.