I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.

Doing classic plays is wonderful. It's a wonderful way of developing style.

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.

Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.

Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch?

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do

I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.

One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve.

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

Yep. And I noticed how slowly he went down each time, too.

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Jesus evidently hates it when we tear into our brothers or sisters with demeaning words, words that fail to honor the people around us as the beautiful image-bearing creatures that they are.

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.

It is not so much that I began to run, but that I continued.

When I think about it, if I had to choose, I'd rather be happy than write.