Actress Quotes

Gabriel Byrne is an extraordinary human being. We have two extraordinary kids and we work at it. We were always friends. He stuck by me through very hard times, and I hope he'd say the same about me.

But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.

A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.

When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.

I'm tenacious, I think - I know - and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can't do something, if I know I can't do it I'm the first to raise my hand and say, 'I can't do that.' But there is a big Bronx, New York Jew in me that just says, 'Really? Really? You think I - yes, I can. I can d

I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income and really no skills to parent?

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?

I have to live with both my selves as best I may.

I have the courage of my convictions.

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.

Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.

My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.

I leave before being left. I decide.

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.

I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.

They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.

I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.