“Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth.”

“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?”

“Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.”

“. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.”

“Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?”

“I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.”

“To the fans, thank you for your patience and concern. They've been on point with my career, especially after my injuries.”

“Thank you, horseradish, for being neither a radish nor a horse. What you are is a liar food.”

“I hate movies that tell people what to think. I'm proud that Democrats thought 'Thank You For Smoking' was their film and Republicans thought it was theirs. I'm proud that pro-choice people thought...”

“Don't allow yourself to get into the habit of dressing carelessly when there is 'only' your husband to see you. Depend upon it he has no use for faded tea-gowns and badly dressed hair, and he abhor...”

“Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.”

“Dress for the position you want, not the position you have.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”