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

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.

It was always part of the plan to move into acting.

Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.

My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.

In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

I'm not acting, but I am acting.

I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing.

I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.

Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.

When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous.