Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.

To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.

Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

A woman isn't as old as she thinks she is. She's as old as men think she is.

But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?

Sin in the theater, I can observe now, is comparable to education in a university: it is there for those who wish to take advantage of it, but fewer do than you might suspect.

Twins are so practical. It's always nice to have a spare.

Forty-seven is nothing at all, nor is any age unless you're a cheese.

If I ever loved a man better than I love my art, I should marry him and leave the stage. But I have never met such a man.

There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.

I just wanted to see my people smile. Brazillian people suffer so much. I just wanted them to smile

When you believe in what you’re doing, that’s the first thing. And you have to be resilient, because people are going to try to knock you down.

We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.

The life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.

From the point of view of the meditative traditions the entire society is suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

You see more and more why healing is happening through music. It's because music causes a reorganization of the tonal structure, and Man in essence is a vibration

As the feminist saying goes, 'Women deliver.' In other words, when women control resources, the social gain is greater than when men control resources.

Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it.