The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.

Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time.

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.

Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

I think people have surgery for psychological reasons more than because of their looks.

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.

My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition.

A witch relied too much on words ever to go back on them.

Organizational culture is just like the “Operation System” of the organization, you need reboot periodically to keep it running smoothly.

People who know me, they know I have a sense of humor, I'm a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy.

Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.

If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.

As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand

In real life, women dont enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.

The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.

So how come it looks so beautiful? How come the moon falls from the sky?