When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.

I'm very susceptible to sex appeal.

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.

For me, it is good to be vulnerable. It makes me nice... weak sometimes, but in a good way, not a tragic way.

I can't tell you that I like getting older, but I think I can cope with it because everybody gets older. Sometimes it's a little upsetting because time goes by and you want to do more and you have to accept life for what it is and find some new motivation that gives you drive and enthusiasm.

My mother taught me the most important principles, to be determined in life, to be disciplined, to be able to understand that there are some things that you can't do and other things you have to do, that you always have to be surrounded by love, that you have to be understanding.