Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

Taste. You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can't send away for it in a catalogue. And I'm afraid it's becoming obsolete.

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology.

Seal my lips on aches and pains. They are increasing, and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Moments. A couple of moments that people remember, that they can take with them, is what makes a good movie.

Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.

When Morrigan and Brighid created Aerric, he had no need for emotions, he only needed to be a great warrior, and for thousands of years he was just that… the perfect killing machine.

Things forbidden have a secret charm.

The only and dearest relationship is the mind's relationship with itself.

Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.

Sacrifice is never easy or it is no true sacrifice. - Stannis

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution

Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.

No art goes unmediated by other art.

I love the stage, it's my first love - but, it's gone. You do your performance, then it's a memory. It only lives in the moment.