You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

Film is different for me now. If the money is good and it's not totally revolting, I'll do it.

I have no intention of discussing my private life with anyone.

I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

I started on a very high note and I was alwasy able to choose. I want to be able to do that until my last breath. And to do that, you have to have money.

Security has no place in the life of an actress.

My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body.

You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.

I don't think actresses' lives in general are very good.

In my day, people didn't do nude scenes. I mean they didn't exist.

I don't enjoy the life of an actress, but I don't want to go into that.

I am interested in the art. I'm a professional woman.

I learned from watching and I learned form doing.

When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since.

I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it.

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

There are several paths one can take, but not every path is open to you.

I remember seeing some little wrinkles in my early 30s and thinking they were interesting. But you know the horror of it is that the screen image has to be perfect.

I learned from watching and I learned from doing.

Our most important task as a nation is to make sure all our young people can achieve their dreams.

Love, you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.

There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car.

You don't have to be in pursuit of a body beautiful to wish yourself to be the flexuously willowy creature you once were or, failing that, just to be able to pick up something you have dropped.

A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.

Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education superpowers, questions demand critical thinking and creativity. Students are asked to write at length, show their work, and explain their reasoning.

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.

I suppose I'm going on stage and making jokes about the fact that the audience are expecting the show to be about something and that they might learn something.

I don't know who made the Earth. I woke up one morning, and it's here. I make the best of it.

I grew up in Bellport, Long Island where I attended Gateway Acting School and met Robin Allan. She was the school's director who took me under her wing and was the one who told me that I could do this for real.

Heavenly Father has assigned us to a great variety of stations to strengthen and, when needed, to lead travelers to safety. Our most important and powerful assignments are in the family. They are important because the family has the opportunity at the start of a child's life to put feet firmly on the path home.

I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

Times might be tough, your head and thoughts might be spinning, but I find it's physically impossible to do that spiral thing when your mind is focused on giving and creating opportunity.

Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's one option for all filmmakers making a horror film and it's not something I've found myself above either.

I like cooking, but I like other people cooking more.

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

I like to think I grow as a writer from every new experience.

The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art of monoculture, it has become too easy for us to exterminate everything else, leaving no wild plants, no food for insects, and a barren land for birds.

Stop caring about impact and just be the best version of you possible – then you’ll naturally have an impact.