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.

The important thing in acting is to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to laugh, I think of my sex life. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life.

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

It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.

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.

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