I think marriage is all about timing.

Those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences - they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

Being in Australia, I was really sun conscious. For a couple of summers there, I did the baby oil thing, and my my mom said, 'Just don't. You'll regret it.'

Ageing is something that both men and women are utterly terrified about.

People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.

I'm a much healthier person through my relationship with my husband. I've become a more fulfilled person - it's a great partnership.

When my husband turned 40, I was obsessed. 'Has he had his medical checkup?' He needed to go to the doctor; he needed to go to the dentist. Any little cough, I was really on him. Then he turned 40, and I thought, 'Maybe that's why I've been so obsessed with his health!'

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.

I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend.

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

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

I live the life of a farmer. I don't see how I could wear Lagerfeld's designs while feeding my goats. I have respect for Lagerfeld as a man, but I would have so much more for him if he, in turn, respected animals. We do not live in the same world.

Death was like love, a romantic escape.

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Fur is not luxury: it is an industry of death and suffering.

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

Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?

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

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

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

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

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

I have the courage of my convictions.

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

For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.

I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.

Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.

I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things, I think, on the inside, show on the outside.

I do spend money. I like to spend money, on houses - on furnishing houses. And I love to give presents to people. It's just in my nature to be that way. I always spent money I had. And I always spent what I made. I'm not stingy.

All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot of it is imagination. It's not based on real people.

I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'

What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.

You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.

War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.

I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!

Until we command the exact same salary as every male counterpart, I feel a political desire to stand by other women. If we don't stand together, that equality will never be fully realized, and that bothers me.

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

I love my beauty. It's not my fault.