It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.

I have always lived my life exactly as I wanted. I've tried to please no one but myself... but I'm entirely content. I can sit back in my old age and not regret a single moment, not wish to change a single thing. It's what I wish for you...a life with no regrets.

You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.

I thought, can you think of any really good reason not to do it? Except that, oh, I'm so shy, or oh, my private life, or oh, are they going to find out how boring I am? You know? And that was the only reason now, in a sense, not to do television. Because it certainly is a method of expression, which has to be accepted as these things come along.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.