My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India.

It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention

I basically put myself into directors' hands and let them tell me what to do, and the more they told me what to do, the more I liked it.

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

The status quo and the media is doing everything it can to fry children's brains and make them grow up maladjusted.

Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.

I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.

Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.

Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.

I never dreamed I'd like any city as well as London. San Francisco is exciting, moody, exhilarating. I even love the muted fogs.

I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting

By giving, you get, if you don't give, don't expect.

You can't be happy by doing something groovy.

I never think about what people are going think about me.

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

You know it's time for a New Year's resolution to lose weight when you step on a talking scale and it says, "One at a time, please.

The inauspiciousness of the owl is nothing but the inauspiciousness of the man who thinks that owl is inauspicious!

You couldn't attach a 'but' to 'I love you'. You could onlt attach an 'and'.