Acting attracts shy people and show-offs.

It's true, I've become one of those grumpy older women.

I have spent my whole life educating myself.

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?

You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go.

You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.

I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen.

When you play someone who is an iconic figure you can't go into it lightly.

I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.

I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.

Begin where you are and what you are.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.

To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny

A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it means to eat.

Oakmont is probably the premier - Oakmont and Augusta National are probably the top two set of greens in the country.

Think positive, real volleyball happens too fast to think any other way.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

I sure am handsome. I cant lie. This is one handsome guy.