When I was photographed, I didn't feel I was acting. I just felt I was being photographed. It sort of taught me things about myself that I didn't know and was trying to find out.

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone.

You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other.

I'm always in love. If it's not with a man, it's something else. I love beauty. I love the sky I see outside the window. There's so much beauty in the world.

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.

If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.

To be happy--one must find one's bliss

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.

...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

Do something which arouses happiness in your own bones.

What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace

To become a better you, hurry up and take risks.

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.

No turtle can be a revolutionist, because revolution requires high speed!

For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.

To be honest like when you work at something for a long time and then coming to a family of people who support what you do hmm... you are very lucky!

Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.

Competition is a moral problem and an emotional tangle and a political conundrum.