When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable.

Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.'

Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful.

You write your life story by the choices you make.

It has nothing to do with clothing or makeup. Just put your shoulders back and chin up, and face the world with pride.

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'

I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.

Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

I loved it when my heart beat quickly and erratically. Yet I found this performance, which was deeply poetic, more enjoyable.

I am not a fan of books.

As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth…

I knew what happened in fairy tales. The strong survived while the weak were eaten alive.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

Gratitude flows from the recognition that who we are and what we have are gifts to be received and shared.

Live only for what you know in your heart is worth dying for.

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.