She Quotes

Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that.

I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.

Helen Mirren is like the sexiest woman on the planet to me. She is. Just the way she goes about everything.

I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.

She is Cuba. If you want to love her, you have to be with her, but you can't be with her in her current state. It's the point of view of all exiles - you have to leave the thing you cherish most.

She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled!

A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.

I would love to support Hillary for president if she would come out against the travesty in Iraq. But I don't think she can speak out against the occupation because she supports it.

A woman has the age she deserves.

One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century.

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.

My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.

Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.

If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.

A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

I can't help thinking if she - the director of a government agency - is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from - how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

I wish I could talk to Annette, but she doesn't even correspond at this point.

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.

I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.

She has turned the British bulldog into a Reagan poodle.