I’ve always loved independent women, outspoken women, eccentric women, funny women, flawed women. When someone says about a woman, ‘I’m sorry, that’s just wrong,’ I tend to think she must be doing something right.
I have a policy about fear: It cripples the soul, so you just have to fight it.
I don’t think that because I’m not married it’s made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.
Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.
Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it’s worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.
We can grow gracefully, or gorgeously. I pick both.
I never understood the idea that you’re supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn’t something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.
As an actress, I’m drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I’m fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.
We can’t save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it’s worth trying.
Here is my biggest takeaway after 60 years on the planet: There is great value in being fearless. For too much of my life, I was too afraid, too frightened by it all. That fear is one of my biggest regrets.
A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.
My thinking about plastic surgery is this. I haven’t had it, but never say never. Because when you do, you are definitely going to go there.
I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.
Permanence can only be found in the immortality offered by the click of a camera. Like it or not, life moves on as fleetingly as the photograph is enduring.
When I was young, I wanted my appearance to be more interesting than what surrounded me. Now the body part I like best is my eyes, because they bring beauty to me.
Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.
What is perfection, anyway? It’s the death of creativity...
I do believe in saving shoes. But that does not make me a hoarder. I am not a hoarder. But why not save them? Styles come back.
Pretty is a self-serving situation in which it’s all about you. People who are pretty are superficial, but they are not beautiful. Beauty requires more depth.
It’s kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.