“What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.”

“Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.”

“It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.”

“I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was very family-like. Then I studied with a great teacher in Paris, and she was wonderful...”

“For me, habit is just a synonym for death.”

“I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's...”