"A woman can plan when to have her family and how to support a family."

"I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones."

"A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that."

"What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?"

"So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine."

"I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do."

"Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge."

"You can use your means in a good and bad way. In German-speaking art, we had such a bad experience with the Third Reich, when stories and images were used to tell lies. After the war, literature was careful not to do the same, which is why writers began to reflect on the stories they told and to make readers part of their texts. I do the same."