I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.

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.

Loved people are loving people.

You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.

Only when a woman decides not to have children, can a woman live like a man. That's what I've done.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.