Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.

Doing classic plays is wonderful. It's a wonderful way of developing style.

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.

Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.

Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch?

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do

I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.

We gardeners are healthy, joyous, natural creatures. We are practical, patient, optimistic. We declare our optimism every year, every season, with every act of planting.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it.

We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.

My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.

If God called us to a task, He will then qualify us for the job.

What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.

In the moment you ask, and believe and know you already have it in the unseen, the entire Universe shifts to bring it into the seen.

I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.