I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.
[Responding to repeated questions about traveling in Africa without a husband:] I am looking for him.
the grim, grand African forests are like a great library, in which, so far, I can do little more than look at the pictures, although I am now busily learning the alphabet of their language, so that I may some day read what these pictures mean.
It is my melancholy fate to like so many people I profoundly disagree with and often heartily dislike people who agree with me.
West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with
the African leopard is an audacious animal, although it is ungrateful of me to say a word against him, after the way he has let me off personally. . . taken as a whole, he is the most lovely animal I have ever seen; only seeing him, in the one way you can gain a full idea of his beauty, namely in his native forest, is not an unmixed joy to a person, like myself, of a nervous disposition.
I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible.
Since I was very young I've been fascinated with nature and I actually wanted to be a marine biologist when I was very young. That was a great passion of mine. So I suppose in the off season when I'm not making movies, I became more and more active as an environmentalist trying to be more vocal about issues that I felt were important.
When you reach the point of becoming independent of external events, you’re truly free.
For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right, but ended up being compromised, unhappy, hobbled or ruined, because all around them, society was still wrong. Show a girl a pioneering hero - Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Joan of Arc - and you also, more often than not, show a girl a woman who was eventually crushed.
It's television. The reality of it is, if you go on the boards and people are saying, "I saw that coming," or "This is lame," or "I can't believe they're doing this again. . . " Having been one of those people myself, I know better, and try to avoid it.