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I like playing that character who brings love to people, who puts people in a place where they're apt to encounter love.
Everyone should know that feeling of overcoming fear and mastering something. People who aren't taught that become soggy.
I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for high treason.
Don't give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don't know that when you're young.
I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.
In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.
Prostitutes are the inevitable product of a society that places ultimate importance on money, possessions, and competition.
I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.
How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?
I left acting for 15 years, and I think it's really nice to have another life. I took too much for granted when I was younger.
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
As is my way, when I start something that I've put off doing, I always start with the hardest form. So I started with Ashtanga.
Shortly after I turned 50, both Ted Turner and the AARP came into my life. The only difference? With AARP, there were benefits.
I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.
I don't know if a country (America) where the people are so ignorant of reality and of history, if you can call that a free world.
We all, in fact, carry so many people inside us; the only difference is that actors get paid for it, and we sort of spruce it up a bit.
You shouldn't give up. For a while, you have to stay close to the wall and be careful who you spend time with and take care of yourself.
You cannot expect your children to be happy eating esoteric beige-colored foods when their friends get soda pop, Snickers, and Twinkies.
"Strong" to people means "real." It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.
My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.
I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.
I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.
Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. Women want more light and less heat.
If you can intervene early in the lives of girls here and in other parts of the world, you can begin to change the prospects for the future.
I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky.
The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.
This toxic striving for perfection is a female thing. How many men obsess about being perfect? For men, generally, good enough is good enough.
The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.
You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.
Be a good example and hope the partner gets the hint. Any partner who would attempt to sabotage my fitness regime I would leave... wrong partner.
Men fear that becoming 'we' will erase his 'I.' For women, our 'we' is our saving grace Women's relationships are like a renewable source of power.
I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that.
Consistency can be a trap, especially if it leads to being consistently wrong rather than to stopping, admitting your mistake, and changing course.
We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.
I hate to create cynicism about politicians. We just need to invade. Regular people need to run for office and keep their balls and ovaries intact.
When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn't matter.
Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.
I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.
You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.
We don't need to be perfect. We're not supposed to be perfect; we're supposed to be complete. And you can't be complete if you're trying to be perfect.
What we view in the media - and who presents it to us - does so much to determine how we think, how we feel about ourselves, and how we view the world.
Studios weren't banging on my door to offer me parts... And I thought, well how am I ever going to make movies that speak to my heart and to my values?
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.
Whatever kind of workout you settle on, it should include the Big Three of exercise for health and fitness-aerobics, resistance exercises, and stretching.
The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized that I had to step up to the plate.
If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.
I'm vain. My arms are thin, but I'm vain about loose flesh. And so I'm careful that what I wear will show off my best parts, which are my waist and my butt.
I don't like the word 'calculated' because it sounds pejorative. Intentional. Intentional is better, I think. Wild in passion and intentional in expression.
I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.