If you enter the dark side of life, and come through it, you emerge with more strength and passion.

I find standing and posing for photos very awkward.

The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.

Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much.

Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

I believe the experiences of life are more important than any film you make.

I wear sunscreen, and I don't smoke. I take care of myself. And I'm very proud to say that.

Breathe and don't try to be perfect.

I'm always happy to play the bad girl. I just get to have fun, and it's obviously all done with a smile.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.

Silence embeds thoughts better than speeches. If you are afraid of silence, you are afraid of your thoughts.

Sii la mia schiava d’amore, ” I purr.Her expression is guarded. “What did you say?”An amused smile pulls at my lips. “I’ll never tell.” Somehow, I don’t think she’d agree to be my love slave anyway.

Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

The only reason I don't kill him," he remember the woman saying, her voice sounding like the scrape of iron against iron, a corrosion of vocal cords, "is because he's not important enough.

God is within your mind. God is within all things. As a matter of fact, there is nothing that is not God.

The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.

I've rarely gotten a good review in my life, yet, to paraphrase Noel Coward, I am happy to console myself with the bitter palliative of commercial success.

People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.