Words can be used for venal purposes. Words are incredible sources of propaganda and can cause terrible havoc.

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.

You learn to be comfortable in your own skin, and your body changes throughout life, so you can't sweat the small stuff.

If you wait too long in Vegas, you end up with a chicken finger in your underwear.

Hard work is good for the soul, and it keeps you from feeling sorry for yourself because you don’t have time.

All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.

Only science can hope to keep technology in some sort of moral order.

So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.

First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.

What keeps us from achieving our heart's desires is not anything outside of us, it's the conflict inside.

It's a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it's a wonderful thing, it's why television is so great and film can never reach.

When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.