You are thinking about where your brain is at any time. It's very tricky but it's why women are very well suited to rule the world in the future, because of the multi-tasking they do and their ability to be moving in 15 directions at once. It's the women who behave like men, who focus in that singular way with the blinkers on, who have problems. You get a lot more done that way maybe, but you also lose the perception of who's behind you, what's going on, the 360 degrees of it, the whole picture of life that we do have as women.

I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.

Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

I never thought I was somebody that would be on the cover of magazines in fashions, wearing fashions. It's like not me. But that is what movie stardom entails.

Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.