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

“I tend to be a pretty spacey and scattered person, so anything that makes me feel "grounded" comes as a welcome relief.”

“I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what we compare it to - better and we envious and sad, worse and we feel grateful and happy.”

“Work honestly, meditate everyday, meet people without fear and play.”

“No marriage is one person's failure any more than it's one person's success, so it works best to see a marriage that has ended simply as something that didn't work out.”

Source : Merle Shain (1973). “Some Men Are More Perfect Than Others”

“I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.”

Source : Raymond Chandler (2014). “The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words”, p.100, Vintage

“I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970, and the book, I could see by its lack of date stamps, had been lying unappreciated on the shelves of my convent school library since its publication in 1945.”

“Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.”