You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other.

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone.

I'm always in love. If it's not with a man, it's something else. I love beauty. I love the sky I see outside the window. There's so much beauty in the world.

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.

If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.

To be happy--one must find one's bliss

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.

...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

I think something wonderful is going to happen to me. Maybe tomorrow. The phone can ring and your whole life can change.

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

The one you confront in Yoga is yourself. All that is rigid and stiff in you, all that says 'No.

When something so unjust as the black list happened, [Dalton Trumbo] would come to life in a certain way.

A little too much is just enough for me.

I knew unless I got stopped I was going to go all the way. I don't know if I can run any faster. I just ran as fast as I could.

Live nutty. Just occasionally. Just once in a while. And see what happens. It brightens up the day.

If we can find peace within ourselves, within our families and communities, and heal Mother Earth in small ways, we can create a measurable shift in our world.

I don't think you need to dumb down to a child, you merely have to be clear, you know?

I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.

If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then you're in deep trouble.