The best role is always ahead.

It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene

I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?

You’re not too smart, are you? I like that in a man

I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny

I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs

Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.

Finding an excuse not to buy a brand can be just as enjoyable as finding an excuse to buy one. That, too, is human nature.

What makes defeat so painful is just the awareness that the other has won. It hurts to lose because it feels so good to win.

When you leave your home, think that you have numerous opponents waiting for you (it is your behavior that invites trouble from them).

All disputation makes the mind deaf; and when people are deaf, I am dumb.

I think justice is important because there are many injustices in the world and I hate injustice.

Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.

Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different. All your life you've been training to forget yourself, so when you're in danger, it becomes your first instinct