Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.

For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.

I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.

If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.

We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them.

Life is like a steering wheel, it only takes one small move to change your entire direction.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

Krishna says, fight. He says, go out in the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill.

May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.

I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes.

I speak of knowledge, sir, which is not the bed-equal of learning ... I speak of what comes from learning. I speak of understanding.

In order to win everything, a woman must know to lose.