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" You can't acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don't. "

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" We live in an age of mediocrity. "

" Movies are great fun and wonderful when they're good. But you never get to see them till six months after they're finished. So you never get a sense of whether they're really well liked or how good they are. And you don't really know what the finished product is going to be like, because it's a director's medium. "

" I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going. "

" I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think. "

" Actors today go into TV, which I don't consider has a lot to do with acting. "

" Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls. "

" Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life. "

" You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now. "

" I used to dream of being other places, other people. It was an escape for me. "

" I am not a has-been. I am a will be. "

" I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene. "

" I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I'd prefer not to. "

" It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially. "

" I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way. "

" I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN. "

" If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era. "

" I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing. "

" I adored 'Breaking The Waves,' so when Lars von Trier wanted me in 'Dogville,' I was beside myself with joy. He works in a way that nobody I've ever worked with works. "

" I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire. "

" I was never my favourite subject. "

" I love being Jewish; I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it. "

" When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same. "

" I don't look in the mirror; don't like what I see; never have. I am not my idea of a beauty. Never was. This is not false modesty. I've just never been enamoured of my face, which of course is magnified umpteen times on screen. "

" The big rule is that you must never get mixed up with a married man - never even look sideways at another woman's fella. Boy, I really was terrific at obeying that rule, wasn't I? "

" There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree. "

" A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight. "

" I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage. "

" I always wanted to work with Spencer Tracy, which never happened, although I knew him well. And I never worked with Cary Grant. "

" I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it. "

" My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it. "