Quotes

[on leaving Texas] I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.

I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.

Not knowing where your next job is coming from is - something. After Titanic (1997) I didn't work for a year, interestingly enough.

[on Clint Eastwood] The man is very charismatic with what I'd describe as a quiet power. It just hits you. But I was so naive. I was so unfamiliar with what was to come out of that relationship. I simply felt that this was it, the big one. I had no idea that every woman he meets probably feels as I did.

Women with low self-esteem are going to continue to get involved with men who are well-connected. And men stray. We know that. I tried to be understanding about that. I tried to be forgiving. But that sort of behavior just doesn't wash with me. In the end I didn't want to be in a relationship in which I wasn't feeling good about myself. So I decided to leave it. I didn't want my daughter growing up seeing her mother not being fully who she could be, pushed down, stifled. Everybody has their own viewpoint but for me the sanctity of the bedroom is the most fundamental importance. I know some women can overlook their partner's occasional infidelities. Not me. And nor would I do that with another woman's man.

So many men are loose cannons ready to fire their seed wherever they find a fertile field. The discipline has to come from someone else.

[her first reaction upon seeing Titanic (1997)] Oh, my God. We were in London at the Royal Albert for the big premiere and I was wearing a beaded dress and had this little, tiny purse that held my lipstick, a little bit of money and a mirror; that's it. ... But by the end of the movie, I was crying my eyes out and I had no place to wipe my tears. My makeup was starting to run, so I leaned over -- King Charles III was sitting right in front of us -- and I said, 'Your Royal Highness, do you mind if I borrow the doilie on your chair to wipe my tears?' And he handed it to me and said, 'It's a marathon, darling.' I still have that doilie today in my memorabilia.

[when Clint's 8 children by 6 different women were pictured together for the first time at the premiere of The Mule (2018)] This is a classic! One of a kind! Something I've dreamt of for a long time!

As a single mom, you know, it's been a different thing. No gentleman callers.

[on Titanic's 25th anniversary re-release] I guess it is going to be another experience and people will be going to the theaters to see it again, and now, I will have a whole new generation of young girls screaming how much they hate my character.