The best way to be beautiful is to choose your parents well.

I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

People can get crazier as they get older. I can just be weird whenever I want, and there's the freedom of not caring what people think.

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.

I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.

If your library is not "unsafe, " it probably isn't doing its job.

I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life.

Lyra marveled at the effect hope could have.

I think it's easy to stop smoking

We are only here for a little while, and our bodies belong to ourselves and no one else.

God is a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.

I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.

If God answers 'Yes', He is increasing your faith. If 'Wait', He is increasing your patience. If 'No', He has something better for you.

Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions: but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them.