To have something which one particularly wants to do is more important than anything else. It is even more important than succeeding in that thing you want to do. In fact it does not matter if you fail, but it does matter that you do or do not want to do something.

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful.

[On being asked, 'Did you ever say that an actress needs to be able to laugh and to cry and that when you need to laugh you think of your sex life and when you need to cry you think of your sex life?':] No.

it is extraordinary how much you are theirs, and how little they are yours. The child grows inside you and there is something mystical and mythical in that, but then you actually see that you are nothing more than the box in which they come. There is this total person, already formed, themselves.

One knows one's done one's job as a parent properly if one's children reject everything one stands for.

Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink.