Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a tangible acknowledgement that your efforts have made a difference.

I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul.

You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.

You are not an extra in somebody else's film. You are the star in your own life.

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

You can't take responsibility for everything. You can't have that kind of control. At some point, it's all out of our hands.

So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?

I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.

Years are not important, my dear.

I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.

Those who don't plan will end up delaying their dreams, visions, and goals

You get the job done or you don't.

Watch the clouds. They will teach you about the world of form.

What impressed me most about New York were its huge apartment houses.

it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.

What are you using?" I asked. "Fascination or glamour?" "Both," she said, giving me a wicked smile

You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing.

What the matter, Zarek? You afraid to die? (Thanatos) Dying’s easy. It’s living that’s hard. (Zarek)

Just because no one can understand how you speak, Don't necessarily mean that what you be sayin is deep.