“The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.”

I don’t love acting; I love chocolate.

When people say, ‘She’s got everything’, I’ve got one answer – I haven’t had tomorrow.

I hate myself on the screen. I want to die. My voice is either too high or too gravelly. I want to dive under the carpet. I’d love to be tall and willowy. I’m short.

When you’re older, you’ll appreciate the advantages of sleeping alone.

So much is said with the electricity of the eyes, the intensity of a whisper. Less is more.

I don’t pretend to be an ordinary housewife.

It’s amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don’t want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.

When women stops blushing, she has lost the most powerful weapon of charm.

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.

Acting is, to me now, artificial. Seeing people suffer is real. It couldn’t be more real. Some people don’t like to look at it in the face because it’s painful. But if nobody does, then nothing gets done.

I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can’t possess radiance, you can only admire it.

I don’t have a set pattern. I take things as they come. Usually with a great amount of relish. I just lay back and wait for it to happen. And it usually does.

Fragrance is an incredibly intimate thing. It can evoke very specific thoughts or memories and is a little different for each person who wears it. I also think it’s the most accessible luxury.

I have been supremely lucky in my life in that I have known great love, and of course I am the temporary custodian of some incredible and beautiful things.

I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it’s forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can’t ride.

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.

People go but how they left always stays.

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

Some people are nobody’s enemies but their own.

Truth is that which makes a people certain, clear, and strong.

I’m one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons.

Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

You deserve some respect. You are important to other people, as much as to yourself. You have some vital role to play in the unfolding destiny of the world.