I'm not afraid of anything.

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

I'm interested in everthing but passionate about nothing.

I think I will die laughing.

I've been forgotten by our Good Lord.

I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry too often.

Excuse me if I'm clinging on to life, but my parents wove me from tight thread.

In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

Wit doesn't make girls pretty.

I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine.

I've only got one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it.

I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky.

I didn't like mundane life.

I'm not afraid of anything.

All babies are beautiful.

Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry!

I'd like to go to the Moon.

I wait for death and journalists.

Every age has its happiness and troubles.

Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.

He who hugs too much, hugs badly!

I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.

He who hugs too much hugs badly

In 1966, I attended Marquette University and graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1970. I received my doctorate in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where I wrote my dissertation on William Faulkner's early novels.

I was initially signed to a German label a few years ago.

Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.

Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience.

I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.

If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.

My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.

My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.

I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.

The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.

All my life, I had this idea that if I could unravel the mystery that was my mother, then I could help save her. But it didn't really work. We were close, but she struggled with mental illness and alcoholism, and it was rough at times.

With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we as a species must travel. And with a booming world population that will hit 9.1 billion in 2050, large-scale space travel may become a necessity.

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.

Stop relying on miracles to get the job done. Start relying on consistency and hard work it never fails.

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.

How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.

I took physics, and lo and behold, there's a lot of physics in 'Lost.' I think for most people, liberal arts educations are more abstract, but for me, it's been a chance to apply the things I've learned more directly. I also took some Folklore and Mythology classes, and I think that a lot of that influenced me.

I love being able to perform in front of people. I like potentially making a difference in somebody's day or somebody's life.

From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

It's very easy to approach a character like that - a so-called strong woman who overcomes the odds - and give a one-note performance, playing that strength alone. Strength is only one thing a person has.