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

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.

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.

In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

The name Air Supply sort of came from nowhere. I get a lot of my things in dreams and I just had a dream about it one night, and I woke up and said that's just got to be the name. That was in 1975.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares.

All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.

I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.