All you really need in life is some fresh water, a good hat, and a really good pair of shoes.
If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.
I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.
If we can genuinely honor our mother and father we are not only at peace with ourselves but we can then give birth to our future.
It's real important to enjoy your turn.
Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility.
I do miss the stage. There's nothing like it, nothing. When I did my one-woman show and played the Palace and played the Gershwin and all that, I did - what? - eight shows or maybe more a week. Of course you can't do anything else, and you can't run quickly for a cab in the rain, and you can't have a drunken love affair. You can't do any of that. Because you've got to be perfectly healthy. And I guess I value enjoying my life a little bit more than the discipline these days.
I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor.
Melt their weapons, melt their hearts, melt their anger with love.
Listen to sounds beyond silence.
I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.
I think we have to do something about the environment and how we are polluting the planet.
In order to get to the fruit of the tree, you have to go out on a limb.
In some ways, America has grown up to be a masterpiece of self-concern.
I don't feel competitive.
Usually I'm right, by the way - so never mind all the other.
Never trust a man when he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
I believe in UFOs, I believe in extraterrestrials, and I believe in angels. And maybe they'll protect all of us.
The spirit is something to be enjoyed. It is not a harsh discipline. And I think people should take some time everyday for some kind of moving meditation, like Qigong or Tai Chi.
You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture.
Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance.
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
You are the architect of your personal experience.
no one ever really leaves Hollywood. No one really leaves unless they are called away by God. Even then, the impulse would be to come back again and make a movie about the experience.
The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.
Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.
Films and life are like clay, waiting for us to mold it. And when you trust your own insides and that becomes achievement, it's a kind of principle that seems to me is at work with everyone. God bless that principle. God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it.
I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
My gift is that I'm not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It's about health and being in good shape.
An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever said I'm dull.
I can't give up my own identity.
God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it. I deserve this.
The loss of magic is the denial of unlimited possibility.
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
New York was the only city I knew in the world where you could be desperately lonely at nine in the morning, crossing the street for a bagel at Gristede's, and find that seven hours later you were drinking Irish coffee at P.J. Clarke's with all the friends you had inherited along the way.
Crystals amplify the consciousness.
When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.
I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.
I make my mistakes in public.
Anything is possible if you believe you deserve it.
I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.
I'm very aware, but I'm very naïve. When you are really naïve and expecting safety and expecting the best, you don't feel you're taking risks. You can get smacked a little, but usually it works out pretty well. I would say that, as much as you can instill your open-minded naivety, if you're basically open minded, then you can do damn near anything.
We feel the urge to tell the truth as we see it. But we should try to accomplish this without judgemental condemnations that hurt others. Again, when we remember that what we perceive in another is a reflection of ourselves, we become less judgemental. So when we freely express harsh judgement of another, we are in effect talking about those aspects of ourselves that trouble us the most.
Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.
I'm not unaware of how I'm perceived, I just don't care about it. Unless I really hurt someone's feelings. I care about that.
For me, the safest place is out on a limb.
I have never seen myself as leading for others. What's important is that I know who I am. Not completely. But I'm coming around third base.
Celebrate what is possible. Your beliefs will create your reality.
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth.
Aging people are underserved in this culture - big time. I want to stay healthy so I can serve that community and be a voice.
I'm too direct and too unsparingly impatient.
You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.
The secret is to let the audience feel through the actress, rather than having the actress feel for the audience. When you can do that, you involved the audience almost without their knowledge or awareness.
Things are done according to money these days.
I don't know why anybody would be in awe of me.
Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.
I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.
I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further.
When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.
To release others from the expectations we have of them is to really love them.
New York is the perfect town for getting over a disappointment, a loss, or a broken heart.
Until mankind realizes that there is, in truth, no good, and there is, in truth, no evil-there will be no peace.
I have a lot of friends who come and stay, and we talk about the world.
It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
I had a video made of my recent knee operation. The doctor said it was the best movie I ever starred in.
Crystals are amplifying minerals. You have a crystal in a radio - it amplifies the sound waves. You have a crystal in a television set - it amplifies the light waves. When you hold crystals, they amplify thought waves.
I thought playing an angel would be very good for my image.
I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me.
In terms of my life, I guess I want to share whatever I've learned really, which is basically one thing: know yourself, look for yourself, know what to look for, cherish it, be honest, be authentic, even if it hurts your feelings. That's not bad.
Friendship is not linear. It moves in all directions, teaching us about ourselves and about each other.
... when things get rough, a breakthrough is just on the other side of the pain.
One can become as intellectually arrogant about spirituality as about empirical science.
I'm an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I woke up--sociologically, politically, and creatively--I could no longer take those parts and look in the mirror.
Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed. That's why meditation works.
I'm not sure I'll come back to this planet. I may come back to another one.
You know, I have never had a casting couch proposition in my life. I thought there was something wrong with me.
I think people will become more and more aware that we are all more than we seem.
I have to do two things at once or I get tired.
I think it's much more important to know the truth than it is to make money on it.
Technology has outstripped our knowledge of self.
I think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man's baggage is more of a trek than I'd like to take right now.
He [Jimmy Carter] says his lust is in his heart. I hope it's a little lower.
I've always thought I was looking for myself whenever I traveled. Like a journey anywhere was really a journey through myself.
Why do people have to love people anyway?
I think in the end we all know that our best friend is ourselves. We are born alone and we die alone. That's the journey.
Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.
I have a great life, to tell you the truth.
You think you have a handle on God, the Universe, and the Great White Light until you go home for Thanksgiving. In an hour, you realize how far you've got to go and who is the real turkey.
I've gotten crankier in my old age.
Sex is hardly ever just about sex.
I'm very involved with learning to be self-sufficient.
If you're comfortable with yourself-which everyone can get to, to some extent-that's when you start getting into who is your real self.
Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.
I think materialism has trumped a lot of stuff, but I don't think it has trumped the heart, especially when it comes to (a person's) last thought.
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.
...One individual is his or her own best teacher, and no other idol or false image should be worshiped or adored because the God we are all seeking lies inside oneself, not outside.
When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.
bonding through dependence never works, whereas bonding through freedom always does.
Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we resist.
I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.
I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!
All life is a boomerang. We receive what we give.
There's no journey worth taking except the journey through one's self. That's the most important journey you take. I found that out as I went around the world many times: I was learning about me.
I look like a real bag lady when I go to Starbucks with my dog and get my chai.
When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself.
The pickings are pretty slim when you have to play the part of a housewife who doesn't go out of her apartment because she's afraid she's going to get mugged, or a woman who turns into her brother, who is a murderer.
It's not going to be about money. It's going to be about who am I, what have I done and where am I going.
I watched my head rolling on the floor. It landed face up and a big tear came out of one eye.
You have to surrender to the energy above and below.
I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves.
Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine.
I don't do like diva trips and stuff.
I live in too many cities.
The more sex becomes a non-issue in people's lives, the happier they are.
Once you get your own family clear in your head, whatever your problems are with it. You're better prepared for being an adult in the world.
My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.
Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who had created a system of linked dictatorships to control the creative people. We were supposed to be the children; mad, tempestuous, brilliant, talented, not terribly smart children.
I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of me.
I'm a city girl and I never really lived in the country, so I'm learning about that.
Perhaps the longest journey is the journey within.
We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.
You can't take a crash course in serenity.
