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.

Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.

I'm not taking votes based on getting re-elected.

Well, who wouldn't want to work with Tom Hanks?

I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.

My books fall in the wobbly middle between historical fiction and historical romance.

I didn't know it, but my father had a brain tumour. Everything happened very fast. Within a year, he was gone. Because I was so young, I didn't completely understand the concept of death.

I will not leave this Earth until I play Harley Quinn.

You can make your own way. It's about getting out there and not letting rejection get you down.

I grew up on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, on an expat estate, and that meant I had no idea about money until a lot later than most children.

We sincerely hope that south Asian countries will respect and live in amity with each other, and achieve common development, and that south Asia will enjoy peace, stability and prosperity.

I still want to write Clint Eastwood a letter saying, 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry for all us wimp actors. You're the truth.' I guarantee he's not the person you want to fight, even now! You look at him, and you don't want to mess with him. He would still take you down.

I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.

A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they're so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm's length. They can be really funny, but they're not really nourishing.

I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them.

Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.

I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.

It is as if the first diviner of absinthe had been indeed a magician intent upon a combination of sacred drugs which should cleanse, fortify and perfume the human soul.

I trained for about a year before I had my first amateur fight. I won by knockout, and then, for my second fight, the guy didn't even show up.

So I begged, half way into season two, for them to let me cut my hair.

I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

Islamic terrorists do not need an excuse to attack the United States. To attack us is what they do; they attack us for what we are.

The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.

As soon as I heard there were people in Germany who wanted to restore the old part of Dresden, I wanted to help. Even before the Nobel, I had started this group, the Friends of Dresden. The destruction of Dresden made a big impression on me when I was a child, and I wanted to do this.