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.

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.

You can't control how other people see you or think of you. But you have to be comfortable with that.

Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people who have no intelligent knowledge of what they condemn?

You decide every moment of every day who you are and what you believe in.The good news is you get another chance to improve in another second.

Make money, we are no longer in barter system. If you don’t want it, then donate it, but MAKE IT!!!!

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

The greatest victory is over self.

God works in different ways and it shows... And everybody knows, love comes and goes.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure.

Ive got many different voices - I have a Southern girl, an Irish girl. I have a gibberish language that youd have to decipher. I guess I try to never take myself too seriously.

Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.