Great Throughts Treasury

"You can't take a crash course in serenity."

"Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself."

"A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused."

"And I'm developing three more pictures to do after this, ... I don't know what the synchronicity is all about, but it's there."

"At a certain age if you don't know who you are, there is a serious problem, as we can see by some of our leaders."

"All those ghosts were hanging around. ... If I had been them, I would have gone to work."

"Crystals amplify the consciousness."

"Audrey was the kind of person who when she saw someone else suffering tried to take their pain on herself. She was a healer. She knew how to love. You didn't have to be in constant contact with her to feel you had a friend. We always picked up right where we left off."

"Being old is such a treat!"

"But what is the perception of women in general on the screen?"

"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is."

"Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power."

"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends."

"For me, the safest place is out on a limb."

"He's very happily married, thank goodness, and we are friends."

"How much money were you hoping to get from me?"

"He's an expert filmmaker, and he's an ex-journalist, so he really knows how to investigate what people are feeling... And I found it fascinating that he wanted to go into something that dealt with women's feelings."

"I can be a lazy slob."

"I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a real problem."

"I am an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I woke up -- sociologically, politically, and creatively -- I could no longer take those parts and look in the mirror."

"I am not the Anne Bancroft interpretation, ... I'm back to doing what I do. Flamboyant, cynical and foul-mouthed, and drinks and smokes and says 'Go (expletive) in your shoes.' Loved it."

"I don't do like diva trips and stuff."

"I can't give up my own identity."

"I don't do that designer stuff."

"I don't feel competitive."

"I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant."

"I don't know. It just happens and you love your work and you love your profession, you stay there and you will find each other."

"I don't know why anybody would be in awe of me."

"I don't like leaving my dog when I go to England and she is with me all the time."

"I don't think you go out of style when you're living in the present most of the time. And I think that is what I do."

"I don't like to socialize much."

"I don't need a man to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we'll ever have is the one with ourselves."

"I guess Britney and the dancer didn't show up that day."

"I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves."

"I live in too many cities."

"I knew that her canvas was deeper than she had allowed herself to be... Something About Mary and Charlie's Angels? Come on. This is bigger. And she was very courageous in my opinion and disciplined. Quite disciplined for someone that the public considers ditzy."

"I know they are important movie people... but here they were at my kitchen table waiting for food they had just discovered."

"I love playing contained. I'm going to pattern the rest of my career after Morgan Freeman."

"I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!"

"I love winning those things."

"I loved the examination of old money in Pasadena (California) and I loved that this woman (Jennifer Aniston's character) from a background that was sculpted in Pasadena has been in New York she is about to get married she comes back looks at what she came from and is so appalled and astonished and I am the grandmother who is the only one she can talk to and the only one in Pasadena who is basically talking the truth."

"I make my mistakes in public."

"I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that."

"I lost to a tracheotomy,"

"I look like a real bag lady when I go to Starbucks with my dog and get my chai."

"I love having my butt kissed by you. That's the best I've had in 10 years!"

"I never would have given up my work to stay home."

"I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. And, from that moment, my life changed."

"I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions."

"I think he really doesn't know. What's he doing with a women's picture, anyway?"