I think a sense of humor is the emotional equivalent of a sense of realism. One should not take everything seriously, and everybody takes some things seriously.

Why would you ever rest from what you love?

I felt tears pricking inside my eyelids. Maybe I came first with Oliver

Stars are only the rain of the Absolute.

Mere words cannot defeat a true hero. Unless they happen to be the words to some sort of Instant Death Spell. Magic is scary.

When you are attracted to, and eat, fruits, occasionally a seed will be carried within you to a fertile ground.

There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.

If you've been doing all you can and it's not happening for you, go out and have you a good old time. Put on your sexy dress and move on.

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.

Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles.