What would you do if someone said to you: “You’re so popular right now that you can be on the cover of every magazine, but if you do that, you might get overexposed and a backlash will develop”? That’s life. Everything has positive and negative consequences.

I don’t think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.

As I’ve gotten older, I’ve found that I can have men as friends. I used to not be able to.

God gave women instinct and womanliness. Utilized appropriately, the combo effortlessly disorders the mind of any man I’ve ever met.

I do not want to die of this disease. So I say to God: “It is seriously time for a miracle.”

I’m holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.

I deeply believe in one’s own positive will to overcome even the most daunting challenges.

Stress is what feeds your cancer. Stress is what gives you cancer and then there’s the paparazzi giving you stress.

I’ll do anything to stop my son running out into the street. I’ll take a bullet for him. He’s hit me a few times. He shows no remorse afterward.

I thought Marilyn Monroe was the most beautiful woman in the world and Elizabeth Taylor breathtaking. But when I see myself on the screen I say: ‘Oh shoot! What are they talking about?’