We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.

Beauty is not the flawless perfection of youth, but the fine lines, scars, and wisdom which only living can give you.

People do what their society rewards them to do. If the society rewards trust, people will be trusting

True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.

On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials.

Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.

Hurts and disappointments can hold gifts.

I will never be a waif. I want to market myself as a healthy-looking woman who is an action-star kind of girl.

Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very very naughty.

Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.

The question is one of faith. Faith in my talent. Faith in my decisions. And faith in the idea that the truth, even if it can’t pay my bills, can still set me free.