Hardships and handicaps can...stimulate our energy to survive them. You'll find if you study the lives of people who've accomplished things, it's often been done with the help of great willpower in overcoming this and that.

You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.

Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife

Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

Do be true to yourself, whether it's bad doesn't matter. The important thing - you have to copy while you're studying. And culture is - each of us - is like one pearl added to another to make a chain. We each contribute to the other. And that's all right. But once you're on your own, do that which comes from within. And I feel this very strongly.

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

And then a great thing in my life was going to India.

Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.

The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.

I hang on to the statement of scientists that there is no time. Therefore, join me in telling everyone you are thirty-two. This allows me to go after young men and plan grabbing husbands from my girlfriends. Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.

Celibacy is exhausting.

You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex