I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

If you're an actor, a real actor, you've got to be on the stage. But you mustn't go on the stage unless it's absolutely the only thing you can do.

I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

Death is my neighbor now.

Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

I seem to have an awful lot of people inside me.

Who you are contributes to your poetry in a number of important ways, but you shouldn't identify with your poems so closely that when they are cut, you're the one that bleeds.

Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was—by Time corporate standards—just a little lazy.

It’s like they were worried that I’d be alone all day brooding and painting my cabin black or something—sheesh.

The mantra should change from 'Always Be Closing' to 'Always to helping'.

Writing is not "the establishment of a professional reputation" as if one were a doctor or lawyer; it is not properly in the sentence with creation of a family and the purchase of a home.

When you're a monster, you are thanked and praised for not being a monster.

The Tao which you know is not the eternal Tao

If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script.

It's not that weird, but when I was in Peru, I ate a guinea pig. If you're going to eat guinea pig, you call it cuy. Cute word for such a cute little animal that I ate a few times.

The worst decisions of your life will always be those that are made out of fear.