While I was always successful... I never thought I'd be one in the world.

Nobody wants to go through divorce, especially when there's young children involved.

I'm proud of myself. I'm a relieved, happy girl.

I don't think I should be underestimated.

You work your whole life to try to be the best you can, even if it's for only one day or one week.

I couldn't imagine being from a country where all the pressure is on a particular player.

I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.

We get criticized for showing no personality, and then we get penalized when we do.

I think I'm pretty down to earth.

I did everything I could except win. I feel fine. I just played bad at a big time.

[On a strained relationship between a tennis champion and her mother:] There comes a time when it's probably not cool for your mom to be your best friend.

O that our dreamings all, of sleep or wake, Would all their colours from the sunset take.

If neither crying nor laughing can change my circumstances, then I rather go through them laughing.

There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts.

People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.

Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

I tend not to listen. When I'm listening to records, I don't listen to much new wave stuff, I tend to listen to the stuff I used to listen to a few years back but sort of odd singles.

Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done.

There are, of course, many, many, many good cinematographers and unfortunately they don't work as much as many of those people who do those crazy, stupid movies.

Seek those who help you hear your own heart.