This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me.

There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.

The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.

It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor.

There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

When you're a woman in your 40s, it's not the best time to do films, because there really aren't that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts.

There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed.

So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

I just let the character speak to me and things appear.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.

I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.

In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

It's not the size of the dreamer, it's the size of the dream.

Christianity is a battle not a dream.

Lately, I can't shake the feeling that I've been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I can't account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children.

If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education.

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream.

I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that was big in farming, and also big in clothing factories, you don't dream about being a professional football player or an actor.

It's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe.

My dream is to save women from nature.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

I had to do something special coming in. I didn't do it, so I had to do it in the playoff. Winning the Mercedes is awesome. Winning three times is a dream come true.

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

I stand before you today as a disciplined conservative Texan, a committed Republican and a proud American, united with you to restoring our nation and revive the American dream.

The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor.

I've watched those shows my whole life - being on one is like a dream. It's hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I've known my whole life.

If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.

You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"

We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dream.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.