Her Quotes

I'm not sure if men really understand this, but I don't think there's a woman in America who really expects her life to be easy. In our own ways, we all know better!

Her Majesty said she hoped I would have time for my horses - I own two and have shares in four.

The only woman I have played in my career was my wife and I beat her easily! But she wasn't much good.

I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and I've been surprised at how much I've been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo, but that's true.

The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.

It would be nice to do a movie where I didn't have to choke the girl to get her.

I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.

When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That's what I wanted to do.

What was it about Carolyn that made her so cautious about revealing herself?

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

As I wrote, I found that Aibileen had some things to say that really weren't in her character. She was older, soft-spoken, and she started showing some attitude.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her.

Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his German ancestry or her German ancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.

In my judgment, if we had pursued this course, the zones would have been of short duration. England would have been compelled to take her mines out of the North Sea in order to get any supplies from our country.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.

Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

I would have loved to have met Marilyn Monroe and have dinner with her.