True freedom comes when we no longer need to be somebody special in other people's eyes because we know we are loveable and good enough.

Goodness is both an ethical and an esthetic standard.

There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes, Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth.

Sisters, when about their work, should not put on clothing which would make them look like images to frighten the crows from the corn. It is more gratifying to their husbands and children to see them in a becoming, well-fitting, attire, than it can be to merely visitors or strangers.

Be happy in your own skin.

I am a thing of beauty.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even — if you will — eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned impostor couldn't be happy with. Something, in other words, that can't be shared, like your own skin — not even by a minority.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

Public perception is obviously important to an actor's career.

You're not supposed to look perfect while you're making babies. Making babies is the perfection. It's about feeling good in clothes and knowing you can get dressed up in the evening, work it for a minute, and maybe get back in a certain pair of jeans. But there's just no such thing as perfection.

Even top fashion models get critical about one certain part of their body that they do not like. So perfection is impossible.

If I could have lived as an actress in any period, it would have been the 1920s - I would have loved to have been part of that speakeasy era.