At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

People can get crazier as they get older. I can just be weird whenever I want, and there's the freedom of not caring what people think.

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.

I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.

Dreams are, by definition cursed with short life spans.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

In order to find peace, we must expose the masks we use to hide behind.

Well, fluffy shirts are, by definition, very comfortable.

I'm a Pilates person. It's great. I had a hip problem. I had a chronic back, a pinched nerve and a hip problem and it's completely solved all of it. I love it. It makes me feel like I'm taller.

But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth; The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth: Flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam, Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream.

In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very well.

Self-interest leads to honing your skills, the better to trade with.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.

You write music for yourself and if you just open that door and let people in, the audience is going to grow and it's going to become more accessible.