Actress Quotes

Of her ex-husband:

He would grab me in his arms, hold me close—and tell me how wonderful he was.

Shelley Winters

Another great illusion that woman must... destroy... is the impurity of sex, the realisation in defiance of superstition that there is nothing impure in sex - except in the mental attitude toward it...

Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

Mercedes McCambridge

She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to.

I do feel one learns more from one's failures than from one's successes,

I can now see that our needs meshed perfectly: my need to be swept away by a man, to be held securely and adored by a man, and his need to find the girl who would be pliable and receptive to his idea of a couple, who wouldn't question his unspoken authority. I don't mean he wanted a mouse—and he knew very well he wasn't getting one.

If Democracy should fail, it would be because we had been so lacking in self-discipline that our personal problems had taken all our substance and energies, leaving us nothing of value to contribute to the commonwealth.

I have a rare intolerance to herbs which means I can only drink fermented liquids, such as gin.

I simply couldn't conceive of how devastating it would be not to be able to hear my children's voices. Not to be able to communicate with them, to hear them learn, grow, and express themselves verbally. How fortunate, how blessed I am. This overwhelmed me. I can talk to my children, I can respond to their needs and comfort them when they tell me they are unwell. I can tell them stories and hear them tell theirs.

Models are the physical mirror of femininity. They should come in all sizes, shapes, and ages, and now they do. If my two careers mean anything, it's that.

If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commercial insurance industry insure them. Until those most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family.

I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright. I was also born old. And illegitimate. But the two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

My children's books are written on the belief that every child has a talent and a passion. Each story unfolds into an adventure of nurturing that confidence until a passion blooms.

Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated, means paying attention to what is actually happening; it's about what is really going on.

I used to live in a sewer. Now I live in a swamp. I've come up in the world.

There is no more West. We are the West. So we've got to take care of what we have.

Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.

When you're busy blocking out difficult emotions and feelings, you're not going to feel the good stuff, either.

Valerie Bertinelli

True elegance is for me the manifestation of an independent mind.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm still employed and that's a good thing. I've gotten to do a wide variety of things and different roles. I've met different kinds of challenges on each and every film and I never get bored. So that's been success to me, that I've been able to stay afloat and also get to do things that are fun. I don't know where that puts me in the grand scheme of things but I've really enjoyed the journey and the course it's taken so far.

I don't believe in the institution of marriage, for me. If you love somebody and have a commitment that is strong and spiritual, then I just don't think a piece of paper makes any difference. I'm part of that whole school of thought that says when homosexuals can get married, maybe I'll start opening my mind to it.

Well, we're movin' on up, to the East Side.
To a deluxe apartment in the sky.
Movin' on up, to the East Side.
We finally got a piece of the pie.

The trouble with the theater is that it's no longer a way of life for an audience. It's just a way to kill an evening.

No, I don't have a boyfriend, [...] I don't want one.

I knew it had the potential to be something special right away. It was like meeting somebody that I've just known where you just recognize one another. It was so disproportionate, the level of emotion we were experiencing to the time we had spent together.