Comfort is the enemy of the artist.

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

When I was a little kid, I told stories.

Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate.

Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.

I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy.

I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

I think I started realizing I was losing my hair when I was in Illinois. And it was traumatic. It was not something I had figured on in my life.

On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.

You can't beat life when you consider the alternatives.

Using the stratagem of defining character by what changes and what remains the same, the one constant always seems to be regret. We are defined by the objects of our regret.

Animals will always have sad eyes because they can see into the soul of man.

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We're born alone we live alone we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

If so, I couldn't imagine how the opposite gender managed to get out of bed in the morning. They might be lovely to look at, but clear thinking wasn't their strong point.

We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'

Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms.

I was a feminist in the Sixties, and can you imagine? The worst thing I could have done was to be in fashion. It was the most uncomfortable position.

If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age.

Teach the mouth to say what you have in your heart.

What I hate is when you're wearing something and you feel it on your body. I hate that.