I came from a real working-class show business family.

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.

Betrayal and dishonor is usually an inside job. Keep it 'sucka-free', loved one!

What you do with your time on a daily basis determines how far you will go in life

Only the Lord leads us to walk in the path of light.

I smile more when people confused, why he is smiling.

No man can outrun Logic or Time.

To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world.

I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which is where my family is from - in Ireland.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.

Let us enter into the house of knowledge of ourselves.