English Quotes

I haven't played a lot of wallflowers but I have played women who have been vulnerable.

I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.

I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie.

I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head.

I don't know many women who can relate to Sharon Stone and the kind of movies she does. I don't know a lot of guys who can relate to Tom Cruise's movies because they're on a kind of fantastic level.

I am no size zero or super-thin Hollywood actress. I am built for men who like women to look like women.

I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children.

Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.

Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement.

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us.

Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.

Don't whine - laugh.

The fool inherits, but the wise must get.

Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!

Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still.

There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew.

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

I'll keep going till my face falls off.

I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.

A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.

Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.

To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.

A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.