Her Quotes

Meryl Streep does things I would never have thought possible... Her presence on screen is outstanding.

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

It's very hard to play the straight lead girl and still make her sparkly and fun and real.

I think one of my biggest influences is Bette Davis. I've seen almost every one of her films, and she's been very inspiring to me.

On the Wednesday evening - that is, the day I saw her Majesty on this particular point - I had the opportunity of conferring with all those whom I proposed to submit to her Majesty as Ministers.

My mother had a fear of doctors - other than her daughter marrying one.

The thing about Buffy and Spike is they understand each other on a level that nobody else understands her.

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

After Halle Berry does her films and Queen Latifah does her films, it's left to all the black, Latino and Asian actresses to fight over a couple of roles. I opted for some TV. There's just not a ton of work in film.

College on for sure... I'm scared to say it cause it sounds like a family movie, but if my kid was 7, 8, 9 I would take her to this quickly and gladly!

What makes a woman stylish is what she has to say and how she chooses to live her life.

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.

I showed my mom the movie then I told her the movie got bought and that it was gonna be shown in theatres and be on video. Everyone was really psyched about it. Everyone in my little town of hounds started to call me movie star.

I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don't really care that much about women's clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they'll like her clothes.

That was all Rose, and Rose knew what she was doing. Her main thing was story.

Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.

A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning 'til the cows come home, then so be it.

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

No amount of time will weaken our allegiance to avenging those lost in the horrible attacks. America has a sharp memory, a firm resolve, and a commitment to her own.

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

The temple of Ceres should be in a solitary spot out of the city, to which the public are not necessarily led but for the purpose of sacrificing to her.

I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.

I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.

The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps.

My mother saved hundreds of animals in her life. Wherever she encountered and injured or needy or abandoned animal, she brought it home.

In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents.

While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.