“The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.”

If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.

I’m an assistant storyteller. It’s like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I’m waiting on six million people a week, if I’m lucky.

We’re not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn’t matter.

An exercise outfit helps because it sets this time apart from the rest of your day and makes it matter more.

You shouldn’t give up. For a while, you have to stay close to the wall and be careful who you spend time with and take care of yourself.

I was shocked into the realization that I myself had played an unwitting role as a movie star and sex symbol in perpetrating the stereotypes that affected women all over the world.

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you’ve been broken.

You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.

I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.

I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.

I think what’s happening in the world – there’s nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.

Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.

In my marriages, I’d lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

The things that I remember are the Rainbow Room, the Roxy, the Bizarries, Tower, I grew up my whole life going there

Whilst shooting think of nothing else; brace the whole of the body

Learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.

Indirectly modifying the whole surface of the earth, breaking in upon any supposition of zoological continuity, and utterly unaccounted for by what we have any right to call the laws of nature.

To make royal power and divine glory into one invisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.

I feel sorry for them, since none of them understand what it’s like to have a song just get into your soul and become your whole world.

For thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.

Even at concerts people pay good money for, instead of a three-dollar cover charge, they talk through the whole thing.