"I’m not a consciously political person, I suppose, except in a psychological sense, in an emotional sense. I understa…"

"Power is one thing if you have a very rigid sense of morality backing it up. It’s very hard to put the source of one’…"

"I do like it. I get a kick out of it!"

"They tease me about the Oscar, about having won the Oscar. But sweetly!"

"I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man."

"Everybody either wanted to take care of me or push me around, you know? I was teased a lot, sure I was, of course. Fo…"

"When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much te…"

"I was so lucky my parents were encouraging on every level."

"I think people have always liked in me the combination of being the underdog because I’m a tiny woman, but I have eno…"

"It was bigger than life. In some sense, I longed to be bigger than life, because I wasn’t."