I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

I suppose life is a little like that, isn't it, a message in a bottle pitched out to sea, to be carried by the winds and the tides, washing up on the beaches we could never imagine.

When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

In the months leading up to World War II, there was a tendency among many Americans to talk absently about the trouble in Europe. Nothing that happened an ocean away seemed very threatening.

When my mood was high, I seemed normal, even buoyant. I felt smarter. I had secrets. I could see God in a light bulb

A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

The things we ignore often come back to us in our sleep.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.

Sometimes things are most beautiful when they're coming to an end.

My best personality trait that I think I'm very approachable. And my worst is that I can be moody.

Cherish the good, learn from the bad

Pray when you feel like praying," somebody has said. "Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you do feel like praying.

I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.

Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.

I'm not just a fan of the really restored ones, the shiny ones. But I like the working man's cars.

You usually find me writing what I like to think of as intelligent summer action and genre films.

Anyone who develops his gifts and talents will become a commodity

I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it.