But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

When you grow up, your heart dies.

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.

The fact is, I can have any experience of life I want. I don't have to choose any one thing or act in any one way to define myself as a woman now. I am one.

It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'connections.' I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work.

I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

Everybody likes to gossip. But it can be a little scary to have people knowing secrets about me when I don't know anything about them. It's not exactly a two-way street there.

Love is like a musical score, sometimes very tuneful, creating a harmony of sounds, sometimes extremely harsh, striking a hell of false notes. (“Love lying fallow “)

I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious. [...because they focus on what they don't have rather than being grateful for what they have, which is always better than some others.]

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

The only way to recover the old world is to induce the media into vomiting it back up.

Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.

To prevent disease or to cure it, the power of Truth, of divine Spirit, must break down the dream of the material senses.

Mentorship is the key to extraordinary success.

For me Wagner is impossible... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time.