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.

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 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.

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.

. . . Nietzche himself had a Christian view of history, seeing the present moment always as some crisis, some fall from classical greatness, some corruption or evil to be saved from.

Now I recall my emotions at that moment, children seem to me a remarkable race. They want so much to murder so many people, and they so rarely murder anybody at all.

I don't care about fashion, I care about women.

What I want to know is why in the world the Democratic party leadership is supporting the president's unilateral attack on Iraq?

Not uncommonly one hears some romantic young woman say, 'Oh, I would give anything to be a writer.' But she would not; and 'anything' is not enough. One must give everything.

That customer service representative is crazy, if he think I am going to pay that bill.

I dont accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.

When a lovely flame dies, Smoke gets in your eyes.

The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.

I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.