I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.

I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.

I've gone from saint to whore and back to saint again, all in one lifetime.

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.

If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.

I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!

A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.

Be yourself. The world worships an original.

Getting old is like climbing a mountain you get a little out of breath but the view is much better

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.

The sacrifice of our personal liberty for security is and will forever be a false choice.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.

Men over 60 often think that if they wear athletic shoes - soft-soled referee shoes or hiking shoes or actual running shoes - then they will look more youthful. The contrary is true.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

I'm never doing a long novel again, truly.

You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside of the endless cycle of desire and aversion.

Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.

I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.

When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.

But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines.

Empires will come and go. The Soviet Union collapses; China can become a superpower, but 'Blue Peter' stays the same.

Chris Carter is just a fantastic guy, I have enjoyed working for him, immensely. I loved this character. I don't think I can say enough about Chris. It's just a fantastic thing that he's created and I'm so thrilled that I've been a part of it. I'm very grateful.

We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.

The most important thing is to find the balance between city and nature. I have that 'hippie quality' - my husband is a super-hippie Los Angeles boy - so we'll have to make time to go to Puerto Rico, and upstate New York, and be sure we get to do outdoorsy stuff like that.

Even though it is the case that poverty is linked to AIDS, in the sense that Africa is poor and they have a lot of AIDS, it's not necessarily the case that improving poverty - at least in the short run, that improving exports and improving development - it's not necessarily the case that that's going to lead to a decline in HIV prevalence.

I never thought my ideas would actually get published.

I lost my brother when he was 30, and that was devastating for me. I don't know if I will ever get over it.

I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I would show up, and he would be there, and I would get exiled to a couch or something, and it would throw me off my game.

Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together.