For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me.

The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.

Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it you're not even aware, only afterwards do you know you were happy.

Some very beautiful things get lost and forgotten. Just as I got lost.

I have never had a current state of mind. My mind changes a great deal. I am very affected by any sorrow or sad thing, and I am very affected by joy and beauty.

The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.

I am an actress. I am not a movie star.

I admire people who are creative.

I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my case also on screen, you have to be true.

I am sensitive to life, and somehow acting comes to me. I cant explain it.

I always considered myself the world's worst actress.

Even in hardship, God’s goodness prevails.

Artistic expressions of beauty provide the outlet for revelations from within.

So now what?” I ask.She is quiet for a long time, long enough that I assume she’s gone to sleep.“I think this is just part of it, ” she says. “Civilisations fall. People keep going.

Language is no barrier for a lover of words.

It would be nice if people said, God bless you not just when you sneezed but also when you farted.

My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.

Recognize, you ARE Home. Not, you are 'at home'... you ARE Home. Not, you have 'come home'... you ARE Home. You are that which IS Home.

We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and whether it will be militarily violent against another country.

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.

The reality is that a brand can no longer afford to be "friends with everyone."