Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.

If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

Change can only begin with awareness.

Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.

Marilyn Monroe was taken advantage of by most of the men that knew her, including Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio, whom I also knew very well.

I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.

All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful.

I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.

Worse even than your maddening song, your silence.

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

I was never a struggling actor, for which I feel very blessed.

The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.