When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh.

My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.

But who wants an easy life ? It's boring !

I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.

My look is a cocktail. I'm not as nicely turned out as the french, but I don't care like the English.

Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!

Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.

Everything I wear doesnt put me in the league of women. If I were a boy, I could look a lot prettier than a lot of boys I know.

If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.

People always like things that seem exotic.

I didn't really think of myself as being a muse.

Like other spiritual fruit, joy must be cultivated.

Cry as much as you want to, but make sure when you're finished, you never cry for the same reason again

You know what Andy Warhol's sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell's Soup a household word.

I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.

I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons.

I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.

The church doesn’t have a mission; there is a mission, and it has the church.

People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She’s only doing good if your daughter’s doing good. We’re all one family.

I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge up in our defense.