Gloria Vanderbilt

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Art brings a message into a room. It should make us perceive in a new way - either through color, form or narrative content - something we had not perceived before... and perhaps reveal something to you about yourself.

If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was really only when I married Wyatt Cooper that I understood what it was like to have a father, because he was just an extraordinary father.

I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it indicates your destiny is chaotic.

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.

I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things, I think, on the inside, show on the outside.

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.

I do take very good care of myself, and I'm always in love. And by that I mean I have an appetite for life. I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things I think, on the inside, show on the outside.

I believe in marriage and fidelity.

And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong to my mother. And in return - I wanted my mother to belong to me.