Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.

You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.

I have my own peculiar yardstick for measuring a man: Does he have the courage to cry in a moment of grief? Does he have the compassion not to hunt an animal? In his relationship with a woman, is he gentle? Real manliness is nurtured in kindness and gentleness, which I associate with intelligence, comprehension, tolerance, justice, education, and high morality. If only men realized how easy it is to open a woman's heart with kindness, and how many women close their hearts to the assaults of the Don Juans.

It [winning Oscar] is the most important event in the career of an actor, an extraordinary moment, beautiful. Some people live their whole life just to win an Oscar.

I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.

Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.