Mostly actors are progressive because we are accustomed to all the nuances of human life, whereas dictators just try to flatten it all out. So we usually try to stand up to dictators like, well, we won't mention names.

Movies are collective, cooperative endeavours, which I like a lot. But writing is all up to you, it's what's so scary; it's just you and that page. But I really like it a lot.

We understand that Nixon's aggression against Vietnam is a racist aggression, that the American war in Vietnam is a racist war, a white man's war...We deplore that you are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism. We've seen photographs of American bombs and antipersonnel weapons being dropped, wantonly, accidentally perhaps, on your heads, on the heads of your comrades.

When I was at the age when you were supposed to be glamorous if you were a movie star, I wasn't.

Teach girls to read and to work at something where they can bring home money - and the entire balance of power shifts.

Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.