There is no one who would have me - I can't cook.

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

I smoke all the time, one after the other.

My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think.

If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.

If you are blessed, you are blessed, whether you are married or single.

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

I want to be alone.

You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.

I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong.

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

I'm tired and nervous and I'm in America. Here you don't know that you live.

I don't want to be a silly temptress. I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.

There is no one who would have me - I can't cook.

Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game.

This is where I have wasted the best years of my life.

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end

I came from a big family... a big family of Southerners.

This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.

Conrad Black is a picture of a man hugely enjoying himself.

You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.

I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.

I wanted to be a novelist for so long.

If all the people in this world, in which we live, were as selfish as a few of the people in this world, in which we live, there would be no world in which to live.

The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.

I have all the time in the world. I am in touch with the timeless. I am surrounded by infinity. When I think like that, it doesn't mean I'm going to miss my train, it just means that I'm not thinking about it right now because I'm speaking to you.

There will always be hard times. Use adversity to fuel your fire. In high school, I wanted to play quarterback but couldn't until I was a senior. I played wide receiver instead, and this ultimately helped me because I learned more about the game.

Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.

Discouragement comes when things are going great and it comes when we are already down but no matter when it comes it hurts

I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.

We then went through the audition process and picked a guy named Richard Campbell and he is no secret to L.A. players as he was with Natalie Cole for years and Three Dog Night.

What are little girls made of? / Sugar and spice / And everything nice / That's what little girls are made of

I have been influenced by many different artists at many different stages of my life. Starting out, it was people like Elton John, Billy Joel, Ben Folds, and Fiona Apple. As I got older I got deeper into the work of bands like the Beatles, artists like Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Etta James, and Joni Mitchell.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Absolutely, 'Rabbit Hole' gave me a nice first introduction into film acting.

I think maybe ten years from now, I'm hopefully going to be, in like, Tahiti or something. Kicking back like in my huge mansion, if everything goes right, it's all up to me.

I will praise any man that will praise me.

I just like artist-driven projects, but for artists themselves: artist spaces, artist mentor programs, and artists buying buildings and making lofts. Doing whatever we can do. Because at the end of the day, I really think that we as a community only have each other.

Even now I will go to, like, an industry event, and all the ladies will be over here and all the guys over here, and I will go to the guys' table and sit because I just feel I can have a much better conversation over there. And that's automatic; it's not prejudice.