I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

I've always preferred animals to little girls or boys. I had my first horse - actually it was a Newfoundland pony - when I was three, and I loved riding, without anyone shackling me - riding bareback as fast as I could.

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.

The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.

[On Antony's death] Strange, there has never been... such a silence.

It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance.

I always wanted to have a fragrance, and I always wanted to be able to connect with people in ways other than through film.