After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.

The quality of my life has changed dramatically – not the events – but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.

There’s so many things that we could do.

I stayed in New York City for the first time, I’d always wanted to do that.

You can’t stop the aging process. There’s only so much oil you can put on your body. I’ve always just tried to go with my age. If the part requires somebody a little younger or...

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully acheived has already defined his own limitations.

I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.

The only problem with the way they do my character is that they have her get redeemed too early.

I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross!

If we don’t empower ourselves with knowledge, then we’re gonna be led down a garden path.

In my work, people say I’m strong. But I’m not aware of any of it. If I were conscious of it, that can only get in the way of future performances.

Actually, the camera was never overhead at any time. It was always a side view of me. Subsequently, after the picture was released, I saw some scenes from above and my clothes being pulled-and I...

When I did try to express myself it came out pretty tinny, but even so they could understand what I was saying. That turned out to be a plus.

I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.

The formula is the star. I couldn’t work inside that formula.

If I know I have everything prepared for when I get killed by a stalker, then I can go to sleep.

No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn’t have...

It might be arrogant to think that we’re the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast.

I had to have my first kiss in front of, like, a hundred people. I didn’t know what to do. So my sisters told me to, like, practice on a pillow, you know? But it...

I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese.

I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.

Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we’d never get his ego through the door.

The only difference between the Bel Air of the ’90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American.

Cause I won’t repeat myself, the way I dress and look.

I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis.

I’ll accept being Phoebe to people for a while longer, given how much fun it was. That’s totally fair.

I don’t want to do anything like Can’t Hardly Wait, I don’t want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they’re just not what I want to...

A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you’re rehearsing, you’re working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and...

I don’t sit around thinking that I’d like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.

I picked them because the pilot was just a no-brainer because it was so fulfilling and wonderful and awesome; that’s the show that got it started.

I’m a normal person and I don’t have superpowers! I do normal things, too.

I don’t feel particularly typecast because I think I do so many different kinds of things. Whether they’re seen or not is another issue.

Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don’t want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status quo. That’s not really interesting for me.

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

I got off not bad, actually. because I went to LaGuardia HS of Performing Arts, which is really well-known. and there were often talent scouts there.

No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight.

It’s part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what’s been printed about me.

I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they’re at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with...

I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

People always ask me, how do you do everything you do?

I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

It was actually a relief for me to play an actor who was scared, who didn’t know where everything was, who didn’t know what buttons to push, and for me to be able to play...

Of course education becomes very very important and that’s for our human resource development.

I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.

Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.

I was raised to pretend.

When my career first began, I didn’t have children – so there’s a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I’m going...