if we don't stand for something, you may be sure we will fall for anything.

Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace

The things we like best are either illegal, immoral or fattening.

That's the kind of stuff you are offered today. Scripts that have you mixed up with young men. I find them utterly revolting.

Trying to build the brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God is like trying to make a wheel without a hub.

I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. There are worse things in life than being called a Lady.

There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo.

And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films

I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.

Nothing can replace the excitement, the magic, and yes the glamour of a Ziegfeld show.

But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined

I don't want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live.

...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.

Wouldve came back for you, I just needed time to do what I had to do. Caught in the life, I cant let it go. Whether thats right, I wont ever know. But here goes nothin.

I'm going to eventually shoot my own special, because you have to own your own content. My Turn (2003), that's never been released on DVD.

If someone falls into any sin and is not sincerely grieved about it, it is easy for him to fall into the same thing again.

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

We are not supposed to have an opinion. If we have an opinion, it has to be controversial – that is how we are always projected. It is difficult.

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

Theories then are dangerous things.