I never believed marriage was a lasting institution. I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

My definition of a star is someone who really lasts for a very long time.

My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I’ve ever known. She didn’t have an easy life. I adored her. She worked hard all her life, and she was the one who set...

You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.

I’m a total Democrat. I’m anti-Republican. And it’s only fair that you know it… I’m liberal. The L word!

A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight.

It’s inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it’s kind of a sickness.

Stupidity is not my favourite thing; I cannot deal with it.

I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire.

Find me a man who’s interesting enough to have dinner with and I’ll be happy.

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

I don’t consider myself a great actress. I’m just trying to stay alive, actually. I think I’m good, and I’ve learned a lot, certainly, mostly in the theater. I’ve been sloughed off movies for years....

When you talk about a great actor, you’re not talking about Tom Cruise.

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

Acting is a life of rejection.

A woman isn’t complete without a man. But where do you find a man – a real man – these days?

I’m a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He’s a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think.

I was never my favourite subject.

People should tell your children what life is all about — it’s about work.

You can’t acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don’t.

I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me… My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and...

You know you don’t have to act with me, Steve. You don’t have to say anything, and you don’t have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle,...

You can’t always be a leading lady.

Actors today go into TV, which I don’t consider has a lot to do with acting.

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

What is the point of working all your life and then stopping?

In actual fact, I’ve never been one, even from childhood, to kind of analyze myself very much.

I am essentially a loner.

I adored ‘Breaking The Waves,’ so when Lars von Trier wanted me in ‘Dogville,’ I was beside myself with joy. He works in a way that nobody I’ve ever worked with works.

I wasn’t brought up as a society girl to go to balls and be a debutante and marry the social set and money and go to parties. No one in my family lived like that....

She’s not a legend, … She can’t be a legend at whatever age she is. … You have to be older.

We live in an age of mediocrity.

My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don’t have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly

I’ve always felt that work – learning from people who know more than I know – is what keeps you going.

It was Howard Hawks who changed my life.

I’m not a sedentary person. I’ve always been active.

When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for,...

They’re guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we’ve done that, been there, and we don’t want to do that any more.

You realize yourself when you start reflecting – because I don’t live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are – that you can’t ignore it. But I...

That was my original dream, anyway, to be on stage. I think the stage is an actor’s place because actors, it belongs to you.

The purity of Jewish upbringing is the restrictions that one carries through life being a “nice Jewish girl” — what a burden!

Men need to feel important. They feel better when they’re with younger girls or unknown girls.

It’s just a fact of life that I don’t think I’ve ever been taken particularly seriously in movies by movie makers. I don’t know why.