“My philosophy is that it’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.”

I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.

You have to be born a sex symbol. You don’t become one. If you’re born with it, you’ll have it even when you’re 100 years old.

Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.

The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.

Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.

Hate is unfulfilled love.

I’m very susceptible to sex appeal.

Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can’t do any of them well – and I like to do everything perfectly.

Isn’t it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!

If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.

Good food is a celebration of life.

The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

I’m a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It’s a pretty dumb animal, mind you.

Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.

It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people’s lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

You really have to work hard to create a three-dimensional character. You have to rehearse and explore and take your time. You can’t just memorize your lines and do it on the fly.

The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul!

I don’t want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.

I am simply an agnostic. I haven’t yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don’t know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.