The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.

It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene

I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?

You’re not too smart, are you? I like that in a man

I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny

I don't believe in simply accumulating money, but I have the luxury to say that, because I have enough for all my needs

Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.

...is not Nature, rightly read, that of which she is commonly taken to be the symbol merely?

Please don’t forget me, don’t let me fade away… I was here, I lived, and I loved…

Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office

Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.

One [has] to sense the trend of history and precede it.

A wolfe will never make war against another wolfe.

The imprint of the father, remains forever on the life of the child.