Young women say I helped them come out of their shells.

I was never the girl next door.

I wasn't trying to be anything. I was just myself.

I never kept up with the fashions. I believed in wearing what I thought looked good on me.

For years I had my hair parted down the middle in a ponytail, tucked down around the sides Well, I went and cut the bangs, and I've been wearing them ever since. They say it's my trademark.

It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me... that I have so many fans among young people, who write to me and tell me I have been an inspiration.

My favorite actress of all times is Bette Davis in Dark Victory. I have seen it six or seven times, and I still cry.

Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.

Hell was not a pit of fire and brimstone. Hell was waking up alone, the sheets wet with your tears and your seed, knowing the woman you had dreamed of would never come back to you.

Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.

To fall in love is a legendary action that doesn't need any explanation.

No matter how happily a woman may be married it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.

I liked Nixon fine, but Nixon was not a partier

It's a shame to waste [the uniqueness that is you], by doing what someone else has done.

I never ever took my career seriously.

I like coming to the United States because the United States played an important role in my life.

Crying never helped anybody do anything, okay? You have a problem, you face it like a man.