Secrets are like honey in a paper bag. Eventually, they leak out.

Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.

When you allow your past to define your present, you’re setting yourself up for future disaster.

I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguay's dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.

When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne.

Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.

No freedom til we're equal...damn right I support it.

When you play somebody, you pick up a lot of their gestures, his voice, the way he speaks, his body language. You don't often get that opportunity.

Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born, To signify thou camest to bite the world.