The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.

My ambition is to be happy.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

My definition of beauty is without rules. It can be the face of a beautiful 90-year-old woman that is full of stories and emotion. Beauty is what somebody's eyes communicate.

All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.

We need to stop the dying and start the living; stop the hunger and start the hoping.

I came to Los Angeles for the first time in 1994. I spoke no English. I only knew how to say two sentences: "How are you?" and "I want to work with Johnny Depp."

I think magic is very related to happiness. So it is not there all the time, but there are beautiful moments of magic in everyone's life.

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.

Every relationship ends, until maybe you find one that lasts forever.

Love heals the soul and cures the mind.

The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche.

The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.

I don't want people poking around in my private stuff. They've no business in it. My work is what I give to people, that's my job, and that's where it stops.

She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.

I made a lot of mistakes but they were correctable mistakes.

God is weaving His tapestry according to his own grand design. All flesh is in His hands. We have no need to fear. We have no need to worry. Our imperative need is to be found doing our duty.

I just loved the coolness of [Sean] Connery's Bond. He just sort of oozes cool.

I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were no beds left. Violence against women crosses all economic lines.

With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory.