Great Throughts Treasury

"I think that families are the most important lesson we can learn from and in, and I haven't seen many pictures lately that have to do with the search for who we are and identity."

"I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part."

"I think we plan everything, somehow, on another level."

"I think male actors get confused by their own vanity."

"I think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man's baggage is more of a trek than I'd like to take right now."

"I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me."

"I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty."

"I worry about the youth of today."

"I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further."

"I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him."

"If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters."

"If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much."

"I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established."

"I was afraid I would get the Oscar for 'Irma La Douce' because it was popular. But I didn't want to because I didn't really think it was that good."

"I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it"

"I was so appalled. They were kind of waiting for Terry to walk out and perhaps take a poop or something, because she's famous herself, and what would I do about the poop? And would they make me mad? Because the whole point is, they want to make you mad, and then they get a good picture."

"I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain."

"I'm not interested in fame at all."

"I'm not one for wardrobe."

"I'm old enough now to have the confidence to do 'contained... I've done it, but just not lately. Not in my years of wisdom."

"It was a lot of work. Now I see why movies cost millions of dollars to make."

"It was definitely a great experience... All that work and all the long hours are paying off."

"It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics."

"It's exciting for a character in the movie to say he knows all the best places to eat and this is a good one."

"I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be."

"I've gotta get to know her... I should get drunk with her."

"I've gotten crankier in my old age."

"It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office."

"Maybe I'm a dream artist, as they call it."

"My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking."

"None of them asked me anything... Isn't that interesting?"

"I've never cared whether a picture makes money or not. Now I care, because it's all about whether they'll finance the next one. And we've got to start making better pictures in Hollywood."

"I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser."

"I've had contour wraps and massages in places I didn't know I had."

"Movie makers now choose profit over vision."

"Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions."

"Out on a Leash."

"Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart."

"The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it."

"The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends."

"People come in here and say, 'Why can't we get Jamaican food where we live in Ohio or California?' ... I'd like to make that happen. Even in Paris and Tokyo."

"Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it."

"Release and resolve fear, and what you want flows freely."

"Sex is hardly ever just about sex."

"That's the best I've had all year! ... God, I'd love to get drunk with you!"

"Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth."

"The more I've learned about me, the more I'm interested in others."

"The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves."

"The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into."

"The mob taught me how to play gin rummy."