At the beginning of every role I take, I have to start from basics and build it up. It's like a new construction.

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.

I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.

There are many ways to be a mother. I have a lot of young actors I mentor, and my nieces and my nephews need a lot of love.

I'm certainly not a prude.

I'm a woman of a certain age who doesn't have kids and never really settled down ... I enjoy kids but not for long periods. I think they're adorable and funny and sweet, and then I have a headache.

When I see a woman who looks her age, she's radiating something, and it's life.

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life; I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.

That's what life is - you follow where your heart leads you - at least I do.

​It is Obscene to keep Printing Newspapers in the Digital Era

Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.

If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

The law courts must appear as a threatening gesture toward secret vice. The bank must declare: here your money is secure and well looked after by honest people.

It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice

When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.

They say it's good to let your grudges go, but I don't know, I'm quite fond of my grudge. I tend it like a little pet.

God wants His people well, but it is up to us to make the decision to walk in health.

I live by the 80/20 rule: I'm 80 percent healthy, and then 20 percent indulgent.