"We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers -- but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change."

Only the really plain people know about love the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

". . . as one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move."

"As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work."

"The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend."