You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.

I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul.

You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.

You are not an extra in somebody else's film. You are the star in your own life.

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a tangible acknowledgement that your efforts have made a difference.

You can't take responsibility for everything. You can't have that kind of control. At some point, it's all out of our hands.

So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?

I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.

Years are not important, my dear.

There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.

She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.

To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there's ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.

That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick.

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

Unwarrantable installment buying is a pit into which those who covet fall.

Awareness is a key ingredient in success. If you have it, teach it, if you lack it, seek it.

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

There was no television, so the radio provided you with everything.

Styles become dated. Style doesn't.