At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It's green. Stand under it, during a rainstorm, you'll still get wet - that's why it's art.

There is a big difference between positive thinking and wishful thinking. Sitting around and wishing is definitely not going to create a miracle in your life.

Your accomplishments in the past and present has a link to your future success.

Though his death would not fill me with any sense of sadness, I would probably feel the loss. Even enemies are part of one.

I'm a working woman of 80 trying to work out what the image I can project is. How I can do it with, you know, dignity.

I don't do meditation. That's not for me. It's not my thing.

Something happens inside of us when we are courteous and deferential toward others. It is all part of a refining process, which if persisted in, will change our very natures.

If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.

Why does almost every ad agency in the world set the time on a watch at 10:10 before photographing it?

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.