A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.

It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene

I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?

You’re not too smart, are you? I like that in a man

I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny

I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs

[W]hen you try too hard to hold on to something, you break it. Sometimes, we need to let go so that other people can have their chance at the magic.

If the lie is large enough, everyone will believe it.

You can't help the poor by becoming one of them.

Using the right of veto would be shooting the Americans in the back.

... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.

I've become more confident as I have got older. I care less what others think.

Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves.

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?