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

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

The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.

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

What we live with is ourselves. And when you have your own identity you are much easier to live with.

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.

Friendship is not linear. It moves in all directions, teaching us about ourselves and about each other.

I had a video made of my recent knee operation. The doctor said it was the best movie I ever starred in.

the illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner.

It's not going to be about money. It's going to be about who am I, what have I done and where am I going.

You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture.

My gift is that I'm not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It's about health and being in good shape.

You know, I have never had a casting couch proposition in my life. I thought there was something wrong with me.

Until mankind realizes that there is, in truth, no good, and there is, in truth, no evil-there will be no peace.

I believe in UFOs, I believe in extraterrestrials, and I believe in angels. And maybe they'll protect all of us.

God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it. I deserve this.

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of me.

I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor.

I don't think you go out of style when you're living in the present most of the time. And I think that is what I do.

If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there, I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.

You let the energy go wherever it wants. I have such a rich spiritual life. Most people take drugs to experience that.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever said I'm dull.

I think in the end we all know that our best friend is ourselves. We are born alone and we die alone. That's the journey.

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 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.

Aging people are underserved in this culture - big time. I want to stay healthy so I can serve that community and be a voice.

I'm not unaware of how I'm perceived, I just don't care about it. Unless I really hurt someone's feelings. I care about that.

You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth.

I've always thought I was looking for myself whenever I traveled. Like a journey anywhere was really a journey through myself.

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

Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we resist.

If we can genuinely honor our mother and father we are not only at peace with ourselves but we can then give birth to our future.

When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself.

If you're comfortable with yourself-which everyone can get to, to some extent-that's when you start getting into who is your real self.

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 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.

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.

And I think we'll be able to prove scientifically that other talents such as intuitive, psychic, clairvoyant and audiovoyant are very real.

I have never seen myself as leading for others. What's important is that I know who I am. Not completely. But I'm coming around third base.

Once you get your own family clear in your head, whatever your problems are with it. You're better prepared for being an adult in the world.

We humans should never forget our capacity to connect with the collective spirit of animals. Their energy is essential to our future growth.

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established. If people are around me and whatever I'm doing is efficient, then I'm extremely peaceful.

I think materialism has trumped a lot of stuff, but I don't think it has trumped the heart, especially when it comes to (a person's) last thought.

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.

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.

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.

Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed. That's why meditation works.

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