I do like the immediacy of audience's reaction. I like when I can hear the stillness and I know that they're with us.

I work in the '60s more than I've done anything else. I did a movie, called Down with Love, in the '60s. I did a movie for HBO, about the Johnson administration in the '60s.

To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.

The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.

Nobody could ever say as many terrible things to me as I say to myself.

I remember feeling the temperature change the first time the curtain came up, the difference between the audience temperature and the stage temperature. I'll never forget it.

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.

If I had my druthers, I would be working in all different mediums, forever.

I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.

I think it's very important for people to not judge the people you're playing. You have to find a way to love them because their story is theirs. I just don't think there would be any use in that.

To reach the pinnacle of success, you have to cross the treacherous valleys of failures and discontent.

You shall overcome every limitation and soar high on Eagle’s wing.

With the lightness of being above the clouds gently wrapped in wings of love.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.

Blood is the price of victory

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.

Precocious talents mature slowly if at all.

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

Sometimes, when I'm alone, I put on six inch heels and wear nothing else and dance around in front of the mirror and do my little stripper dance.