Without passion, the powers-that-be can run roughshod over you.

Honey, I can smell the scent of another woman from 500 paces.

Self-esteem is something you have to earn!

We're all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.

You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.

My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8 A.M. and pick us up at 4 P.M. - so between those hours, you'd better find something to do! I sat upstairs in the picture room and went through opera, ballet, and theater books. I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes - they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn't have much of a social life.

The [film] industry is an ecosystem that's sick.