'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.

There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it.

When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.

If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.

I've never had my heart broken. It's a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I don't think it says anything good about me at all.

I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.

I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.

I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do.

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.

I came from a real working-class show business family.

I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.

The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.

My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

It's more fun to play a good character with a good director and good actors around you. That's what makes it fun, and the more variety, the better.

When I speak about freedom, it's about freedom of the spirit. Freedom of the spirit can't be represented by a body. It has to be art. It has to be all the colors. It has to be something that moves and has no boundaries.

I think being able to be malleable is a great weapon and I'm a very, very good strategist. I create the most amazing strategies in my head and I have created the most extraordinary strategies in my head for my career.

Try to figure out who you really are and not who you want other people to think you are.

I don't ever want to have to depend on anyone completely.

I might not be famous one day. But I'd still be happy.

There is an Arabic writer who wrote philosophy and poetry and who brought all religions and all the world together.

Life, I've got lots of friends. I don't complain.

Leave it to the Catholics to destroy existence.

It breaks my heart because there are some parts I know I would have the right spirit for, and I just don't get them because I have an accent.

Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days.

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.

I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.

I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.

If it wasn't because of my high heels, I would still be in Coatzacoalcos with 10 children.

If I've been indulging in rich foods, a cleanse is a wonderful way to hit the reset button.

I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!

I don't want to be size zero and I'm glad I'm not.

I can learn my lines fine. It’s just reading them in the first place that is the problem.

Make yourself smell nice. I even wear perfume sometimes when I'm alone.

I was an illegal immigrant.

I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.

I'm good at working, but I'm very good at playing.

I'm saving my sick days for when I'm feeling better.