And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.

Anything I learned about the fine art of acting I learned from Hugo.

I like to take afternoon naps in the nude.

They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent.

And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

One newspaper even published one of my nude paintings - the one of me naked from the waste up.

You know, just because you're a blonde type doesn't mean you can't suddenly do serious parts.

Painting self-portraits without clothes on has also given me some publicity.

Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.

None of the European girls, including Anita Ekberg, has anything not found on American girls as well.

It was strange what happened to me; I mean popping out like that before I was even ten.

I like to paint nudes mostly.

They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along.

Believe it or not, I was all fully rounded by the time I was nine years old.

We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.

You know just because youre a blonde type doesnt mean you cant suddenly do serious parts.

Storytelling enables us to play out decisions before we make them, to plan routes before we take them, to work out the campaign before we start the war, to rehearse the phrases we're going to use to please or placate our wives and husbands.

As soon as we stop trying to put boxes and labels to every relationship and dynamic, we'll be so much more liberated and at peace.

It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city.

I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.

If I succeed in business but fail as a father, then I've failed.

The living werewolves have genuine needs and desires, which, though they may oppose ours, are valid. Even if they want to eat humans, you can't really call them evil, any more than mice can call cats evil, or chickens can call humans evil. It's all just a matter of where you're standing.

I have no disagreement with the aims of anti-vivisectionists.

Old friends are the great blessing of one's later years . . . They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.

All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all.

Thailand has made the best of being situated at a geographic and cultural crossroads, and its architecture is proof of this. Religious and royal architecture in particular have evolved through a process of layering; a remarkable Thai capacity for the accretion of forms and influences over time.

I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.

I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work.

It's what the reader thinks that counts.

I was raised by boys. I can hold my own, I can fight, and I love horror movies - simply for the scare factor and the surrealism.

Let some people get rich first.

A good leader makes a good follower.

I told the caterer I'd work for nothing if he'd teach me about catering. I lasted one week full-time. It was exhausting.

I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.

And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period.

The essence of femininity is to absolutely love being a woman.

We look at Donald Trump: his bottom line is interconnected to all kinds of financial interests that he refuses to disclose. They actually affect his net worth.

I think it's our job as writers for Marvel Comics to continue to create those type of stories that can be mined instead of just trying to give readers exactly what they see on film.

When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.

The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.