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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."

"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."

"I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after."
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"I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones."

"I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me."

"Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well."

"A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that."

"It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene."

"I have health. I have a wonderful support system. I have the admiration of millions of strangers, which I do not underestimate."

"I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up."

"There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children."
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