I'm as pure as the driven slush.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

Acting is a form of confession.

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.

I'm as pure as the driven slush.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

There is less in this than meets the eye.

I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.

Acting is a form of confusion.

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

My heart is as pure as the driven slush.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

Its the good girls who keep diaries the bad girls never have the time.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

The only thing I regret about my life is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I’d make all the same mistakes—only sooner.

It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have time.

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work -- the night watchman.

If you want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, be an audience.

I grew up in Haifa and enjoyed the wonderful beaches and Mount Carmel that rolls into the Mediterranean Sea. From my early days at home, I remember a strong encouragement to study.

I do think the public want to see politicians acting in a different way. What's brought young people into our campaign is that they were written off by political parties but they had never written off politics, and what we have is a huge number of young people, very enthusiastic and brimming with ideas. Those ideas have got to be heard.

If I wanted, I could have ruled half of Bombay.

Ralph Fiennes was a pivotal influence on me. He asked me, 'So what is it you want to do?' I very shyly, timidly admitted that I wanted to be an actor. He sighed, and he said, 'Lupita, only be an actor if you feel there is nothing else in the world you want to do - only do it if you feel you cannot live without acting.'

The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time.

No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever.

There are always certain things that you tap into, your own personal experiences, and I try to base my characters on someone I know or someone I've seen.

I'm always preparing for a regular life.

Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.

I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.

I don't ever recall having a political argument with Bob Grant. I've known him a long time. I've always liked him.

I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Sometimes you need to know your place in someones life because you might get hurt if you expect too much.

We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.

Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.

I don't like going to the movies with people that talk a lot. They want to have a conversation or something.