That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.

I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade.

There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it.

I was doing judo before anybody knew it existed in this country.

In order for your dreams to come true, you've got to stay awake.

I was born looking older... and I've been aging since I was a teenager.

Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.

Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow.

You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year... somewhere.

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.

Success is built on what you are able to see and create with your mind.

All you need to find a strong, loving man is the knowledge and understanding of the power you have as a woman.

Is stuffed, de world, wif feeding girls.

I wish I could open a piece of my brain and you could see into my memories.

Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself.

Corporations are not people, despite what the Supreme Court says, and they don't need or deserve handouts.

Play with me and you play with fire.

It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not.