The roles that are written for women as they grow older in theater are much richer and much more powerful.

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

the hope of a better future belongs to us!

I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.

Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new beginnings.

I tell each artist they have to grow toward a revenue stream.

The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

Real wisdom is simple. Living life rightly does not have to be a complicated challenge.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.

I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the exercise of their fascinating gift and their insincerity.