Much more likely you’ll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I’ve got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands.

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

You are -- your life, and nothing else.

I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite.

At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls, you, poor child, who had no friends or toys, you toyed with dreams of murder, because that is a game to play alone.

Hell is—other people!

You're lucky. I'm always conscious of myself —in my mind. Painfully conscious.

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying boredom—of long days of mild content.

There is nothing for you in this bleak hospital room but a cold and empty nothingness that has no answers, can give no peace, will provide no comfort to the living.

I have great respect for the semicolon it is a mighty handy little fellow.

I'm an actress, not a celebrity.

I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also very harmful to our society.

I got mouths to feed til they put flowers on me.

Listen to how everyone is talking about you. You have to use it as fuel for motivation.

A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.

We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.

Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them.

Tick tock, this is a clock.