If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.
To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
Living is risking.
You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.
I've never worried about age.
What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.
To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?
Success is like a liberation or the first phase of a love affair.
When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.
I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is...
Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.
I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.
It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.
All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.
I need, absolutely, to be alone.
As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.
When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.
Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.
When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.