All people want on this earth is to connect with others. Other than eating and sleeping. Human beings need to connect with other human beings. Otherwise, they lose their mind.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

I've never had my heart broken.

There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it.

I MUST go to what desperately frightens me - the chance of failure.

To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement.

What does the Academy Award mean? I don’t think it means much of anything.

Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.

My agent said, "You aren't good enough for movies." I said, "You're fired."

You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis.

It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean.

Remember when I moved in you and the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was, "Hallelujah.

It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!

I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.

To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: 'That's the end of that.

To all those Bernie Sanders voters who have been left out in the cold by a rigged system of superdelegates, we welcome you with open arms.

I will not get into a pissing contest with that skunk [Joseph McCarthy].

There are two very different types of hope in this world. One is hoping for something, and the other is hoping in Someone.

I say I drownin' in river. She don't look me like I'm crazy but say, If you just sit there the river gonna rise up drown you! Writing could be the boat carry you to the other side. (97)

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.