I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.

The constant attention is what is so difficult.

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.

I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.

I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.

From ages 10 to 12 or so, I barely remember anything.

My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.

The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.

I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.

There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.

I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.

I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.

I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.

When I get married it will be for keeps.

We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.

We were descended from royalty.

I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.

Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.

My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.

I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.

A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.

At night when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

The only thing that seems eternal and natural in motherhood is ambivalence.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.

I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.

Motherhood has relaxed me in many ways. You learn to deal with crisis. I've become a juggler, I suppose. It's all a big circus, and nobody who knows me believes I can manage, but sometimes I do.

The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.

The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.

The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

Sexual liberation, as a slogan, turns out to be another kind of bondage. For a woman it offers orgasm as her ultimate and major fulfillment; it's better than motherhood.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.