When I think of Peter Wolf I always remember the Portuguese proverb: 'Never say you will not drink from that glass again.'

I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul.

You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.

You are not an extra in somebody else's film. You are the star in your own life.

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a tangible acknowledgement that your efforts have made a difference.

You can't take responsibility for everything. You can't have that kind of control. At some point, it's all out of our hands.

So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?

I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.

Years are not important, my dear.

You're just Little Miss Optimist, aren't you? Do you come with accessories, like a glass half full and lemons to make into lemonade, too?

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

I'm not scared of dyin', and I don't really care if it's peace you find in dyin'. Well then let the time be near. And when I die and when I'm gone there'll be one child born and a world to carry on.

Hopefully people will grow with me, because I'm definitely not going to be stuck in one place all my life.

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

It's a wonderful destiny! God made no mistakes when God wrote the beautiful, unfolding pattern of delight as You!

If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.

My wife and I have spent half our lives, half our adult lives, trying to save special parts of California.

He killed them with their love.