There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.

I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.

Sometimes evolving doesn't mean transforming; sometimes it just means owning what is there.

Life is about creating new opportunities, not waiting for them to come to you.

Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other.

What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

How to 'live' in a state of awe when life is mundane and ordinary?

If you don't succeed the first time - you're about average

She was always at her best with him, with a delightful feeling of being understood. To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!

The Genesis of life is experience.

One did not love revolution. One embraced it with horror for the sake of the deliverance to follow.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.

I was born in Sherman Oaks, California.

I'm not ashamed that I need glasses for distance. I did not feel like I needed to have all of that hair, which was typical Star Jones, or the extra lashes or the heavy makeup.

Bernard [Leach] was, as I said , trained as a painter and an etcher.