I feel I've made the transition from model to actress, but I'm not that secure about it. Lauren Hutton, Jennifer O'Neill - we all know that a few films don't mean all that much.

Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated.

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

I had very little confidence in myself as an actress.

I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people.

If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.

You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.

I never really wanted to be a model. But when the opportunity came, I grabbed it.

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

In Sweden, only exceptional actresses get major film parts.

I think most models, when they start out, are insecure. And you become the focus of a lot of people's attention, so outside validation becomes too important.

You do not control everything, nor does everything control you. You are not entirely at the hands of your environment, nor is it entirely at the hands of you.

Gansey always thought that, after dark, it felt like anything could happen. At night, Henrietta felt like magic, and at night, magic felt like it might be a terrible thing.

Out of all the things we fake we can never fake to be positive.

You must never tire fighting Satan.

A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent....They are being conscripted.

Originally I wanted to be a diplomat, and by attrition I started giving up that idea.

Aeroplane journeys give me quiet time to read and sleep; it's like being unplugged from the earth.

I want to do for you what the spring does for the cherry trees

I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.

Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.