The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a heavy-crane operator. I made and saved good money there for two years.

Knowledge itself is power

Nature when she invented manufactured and patented her authors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

I have found the right way to deal with my diet, largely through trial and error, but also by having good people around me all the time, and they have given me the right advice for my body.

I'm a mom, and I'm always looking for ways to encourage, support, and embolden my son to help make him believe in himself.

Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.

There's nothing more terrifying than an actor who comes with an idea.

Make sure when you fall you land on your back if you can see you can get up.

The women who intrigued me [as models] had the most beautiful necks and the most responsive hand movements. At one point, I found El Greco, and that elongated look became my way of seeing.

While we were at rest, Christ was in rescue mode. While we were doing nothing, He was doing EVERYTHING. He was down in the depths of the earth fighting for our freedom.

Thanksgiving without tension is like a Thanksgiving without turkey. It can be done, but it is not the norm.