“Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.”

“The facts of life are conservative.”

“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”

“For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented.”

“You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.”

“Its not too much fun to know yourself too well or think you do — everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through and past the falls.”

“I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone’s wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.”

Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyone's got a free range for you.

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.