For that reason you can’t write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you’re writing, and...

I’m a pretty girl who’s a model who doesn’t suck as an actress.

I don’t like government, it’s just that simple.

I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don’t have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn’t understand...

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what...

Your regrets aren’t what you did, but what you didn’t do. So I take every opportunity.

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they’d never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of...

Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that’s them just understanding themselves better and better.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

I love older men.

The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

I’d kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.

To look almost pretty, is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life, than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important...

I love Shirley Maclaine. Love that woman.

These things I believe: that government should butt out.

I don’t even own a TV because I think it’s the devil.

There are people, the more you do for them, the less they do for themselves.

If you can’t think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you’ve finished the three pages, don’t write it; it’ll be that much easier to get...

Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There’s still that part of me that wants to hold my head...

I’m not a social friend of the Reagans. That’s by their choice and by mine. They don’t drink enough.