Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

I don't believe in religion. I believe the example of Christ. I believe in the example of a perfect human being that if you can live for other people away from yourself you will be happy. If you live for yourself you will be unhappy and then you will not be able to sleep or do anything else... finally. I think insofar, and I really believe this, insofar as people do live with the other fellow [God] in mind, they have to be happy you know? Because it raises you up.

It's either some kind of electricity or some kind of energy. I don't know what it is, but whatever it is, I've got it.

I won't go to a restaurant to eat with friends, always join them afterwards for coffee. In company I always get over enthusiastic, and this leads to indigestion.

I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.

I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.