I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search.

On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well.

I had never even thought I'd be an actress - I was supposed to be a lawyer. But the motivation is the same: when you act, you defend a role; you have to be convincing. It's the same career.

I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely.

Actors should be timeless and impersonal.

To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface?

Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.

You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.

My dear, a little smile, a little courtesy, a little kindness is what beauty entails. Some are not roses, some are oranges.

He used to say to his melancholia patients: "You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone.

Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.

As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.

If there is no God, then I am God.

That which shrinks must first expand.

Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.

If you're on the right side of the issue, just keep driving until you hear glass breaking. Don't quit.

It's one of those things, when you look back on it, you'd go, "Oh, I could've done without that. If I could go back in time, I would do it different." That's the thing with violence in general.

The deepest love is often hidden.