My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.

For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.

I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.

If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.

She had seen it done. Wherever they glittered in the afterlife – flying among the high rafters of heaven, swimming with her mother in an undersea cave – she hoped the tigers had known it, and roared.

Every cloud of confetti has a dark lining.

Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.

Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.

An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.

It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your way through that.

One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to mention. And so the information, having never been recorded, is now lost for ever.

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people.

I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.

the bliss that comes from ignorance should seldom be encouraged for it is likely to do one out of a more satisfying bliss.