While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

There is only one heaven, one earth and one queen (me) Queen Elizabeth is an impostor.

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

Trouble is a part of life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.

I always look to my mom for strength and courage when I need it.

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film

With faces like dead lovers who died true.

Don't lose a diamond while chasing glitter honey

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

He loved me like thick molasses on a summer's day. Pure, sweet, sticky, warm, dark.

The only way to know the honesty of any person is to love them without desire.

I attended an evangelical Christian university on the outskirts of suburban Los Angeles and by the time of my graduation was neither evangelical nor Christian.

Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.

Whatever you think people are withholding from you-praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on-give it to them.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

The trials of living and the pangs of disease make even the short span of life too long.

Trying to double talk, get myself in trouble talk.

History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.

I'll teach my boy the sweetest things; I'll teach him how the owlet sings.