When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn't matter.

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

In this age of remote-controlled pushbutton war, we must all try very, very hard to remain human beings.

When you're an older woman [in a movie] you tend to be in - how did you put it? You're the brunt of the joke.

Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.

I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.

Lee Strasberg told me I had talent. Real talent. It was the first time that anyone, except my father--who had to say so--told me I was good. At anything. It was a turning point in my life. I went to bed thinking about acting. I woke up thinking about acting. It was like the roof had come off my life!