You only get one shot in your life, and you might as well push yourself and try things.

The best things in life sometimes happen spontaneously.

“Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.”

“A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up to it on a cold night.” – Marilyn Monroe

“I don’t mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it’s based on femininity.”

“In spite of everything life is not without hope.”

“When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I’m already better than them.”

“I love to do the things the censors won’t pass.”

“It’s not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.”

“I restore myself when I’m alone.”\

“Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.”

“I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.”

“This life is what you make it. No matter what, you’re going to mess up sometimes, it’s a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you’re going to mess it up.”

“The most unsatisfactory men are those who pride themselves on their virility and regard sex as if it were some form of athletics at which you can win cups. It is a woman’s spirit and mood a man has to stimulate in order to make sex interesting. The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes or by just staring into space.”

“A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.”

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

I've done a lot of things in my life.

Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.

I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.

I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.

At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.”

“Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.”