Get over it. Get on with your life.

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.

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

You are too kind, and I am unused to it. For your own sake, do not stroke my misery. It knows not how to respond, but with a vicious bite.

My success isn't a result of arrogance - it's a result of belief.

No one got rich on a government program. Do not choose to be a common man. You can be uncommon.

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.

In crowds it is stupidity and not mother wit that is accumulated.

Don’t coach for the name on your business card

I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you at all stick around.

There is not, and never was, a greater man than Emil Zatopek.