“I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I always knew the woman I wanted to be.”

The secret to feeling attractive, and to being attractive, is the confidence that comes from knowing who you are and what you believe in.

What’s important to me is to share, and being inspired, and inspiring.

Aging is out of your control. How you handle it, though, is in your hands.

Don’t let any of your good habits get boring.

Taste is acquired. You may have to unlearn a taste for chocolate or ice cream.

You can learn a lot from my mistakes more than my success.

Be proud of yourself. Try to eat well…and when you cheat, enjoy it!

Do less but do better. Get back to yoga. Remember that stress is not progress.

It’s not about going to a party. It’s life as a party.

Feel like a woman, wear a dress!

When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.

We all have a Wonder Woman inside us.

Now is the time to become a myth.

Silence, nothing is better.

You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

I obviously don’t feel under pressure to look young, because I have had no Botox or surgery. I don’t judge people who choose to have it, but I don’t want to erase who I am.

Maybe we all want to burn off across the horizon, into space, perhaps, to take off into some unknown territory and meet ourselves out there.

What happens to one of the three or five or twelve will happen to them all. Whatever grief or triumph may touch any one will touch every one, as they are carried forward into the unknowable under the brilliant, terrifying sun which nourishes all.

The best way to go into an unknown territory is to go in ignorant, ignorant as possible, with your mind wide open, as wide open as possible and not having to meet anyone else’s requirement but your own.

I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .

Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.

Move from the known to the unknown.

Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.

I will not let you go into the unknown alone.