Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

To be an actor you have to be a child.

The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.

I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.

The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.

If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.

You only grow when you are alone.

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs.

Seeming and knowing made hideous faces at one another across the breadth of her mind.

That's the difference between you and Greta. She has better things to do. She gets involved in clubs, activities. She has friends. But you? You slump around in that room of yours--

Hand over your responses to the man who triggers them, and you have already lost the battle for self. Look beyond, and find yourself there instead.

And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.

Photos are our autobiography, a way of telling who we are.

How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.

As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.

All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history.

I was never a rah-rah person. I never sold drugs or did anything crazy.

Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.