At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.

When are you going to realize that if it doesn't apply to me it doesn't matter?

I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.

I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.

I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.

I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.

I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.

Glamorized... am I glamorous?

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.

I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky.

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.

I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.

I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.

I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.

It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am.

It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

But when I disappeared, it sort of pissed me off, that guys get to go on being sexual until they're seventy or eighty, and we disappear at forty-five or fifty.

But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.

Men say they love independence in a woman but they dont waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by product of middle age.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.

For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

I wish I knew at 14 not to put much thought into what other people my age said to me, cause we were all looking for the answers. So I wish I knew that other people really don't know any more than you do!

I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.

Donner likes what he does and enjoys being on a set. He doesn't have to do it, its not like he has to make the rent. When I get to be his age and still enjoy what I'm doing like him, I'd be lucky.

Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.

I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.

Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.

I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics.