I always go into a film situation depressed and fearful.

Being married, I would say most relationships are pretty codependent in some ways.

I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that's OK, because I still get to tell people I've worked with Robert DeNiro.

Do I get up some days and feel competitive? Sure. Do I get up some days and feel afraid? Of course. But...I have real moments of joy now, and I know it will continue.

I think all writers are different. I've been with a few writers; they're all different.

Maybe it's that I'm naive, but I don't think of myself as an age.

I envy my daughter's childhood.

I don't know much about sports.

Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star, ' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.

If I had to design a career for myself, I would have done comedy.

I have nothing against younger women and older men on screen. What is sad is that so many women over 40 who have so much to give aren't being considered to play opposite men their own age or younger.

A blind ingenuity goes nowhere

It's a nice feeling, Knowing, Someone lived easier Because I was alive.

Hell is not a place you go for your sins. It is where you are when you are not sharing the gifts you were given.

I've been treated there (Camden Yards in Baltimore) just like everywhere else: you got everyone booing for you. I take that as a compliment.

You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society.

When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.

It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.

The base of evil in the world is religion of any kind

I enjoy the pleasure of my own company.

I was a really nervous kid. I was extremely sensitive. Incredibly perceptive.