I have no illusions about my looks. I think my face is funny.
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.
I don’t take my life seriously, but I do take what I do in my life seriously.
I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their dreams.
Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.
I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world.
It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‘don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.’
Ive had my share of difficult moments, but whatever difficulties Ive gone through, Ive always gotten a prize at the end.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.
The most important thing is growing old gracefully.
I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicisation of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanisation of politics.
Everything I learned I learned from the movies.
Pick the day. Enjoy it– to the hilt.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.
I never thought I’d land in pictures with a face like mine.
When I wear a silk scarf I never feel so definitely like a woman, a beautiful woman.
You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.
I’m half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I’d be in a hell of a mess!