For me, the safest place is out on a limb.

I'm too direct and too unsparingly impatient.

I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.

But Honeybun,' I would counter, 'you can't have real love without respect.' 'That is not true in Russia. You either love or you respect. You can not do both.' 'How do you mean?' 'With love you have jealousy, possessiveness, and many other emotions and passions which make respect impossible. We know that in Russia, therefore we accept it.

Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance.

My first few weeks in New York were an initiation into the kingdom of guts.

When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.

Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed. That's why meditation works.

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.

I don't do like diva trips and stuff.

I never would have given up my work to stay home.

I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me.

My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.

Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.

There are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can't.

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established. If people are around me and whatever I'm doing is efficient, then I'm extremely peaceful.

You think you have a handle on God, the Universe, and the Great White Light until you go home for Thanksgiving. In an hour, you realize how far you've got to go and who is the real turkey.

If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.

It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.