I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?

It's true, I've become one of those grumpy older women.

Acting attracts shy people and show-offs.

I have spent my whole life educating myself.

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go.

You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.

I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen.

When you play someone who is an iconic figure you can't go into it lightly.

I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.

I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.

The most important job of a leader is to instill the confidence to follow.

When we finally become present in our lives its as if we are seeing things for the first time.

I believe that there is potential in everyone, and that everyone is capable of reaching their goals and dreams with the right focus, dedication and discipline.

Having a child who is struggling doesn't make you a bad parent, just as being a child who is struggling doesn't make your child a bad kid.

God gives the milk but not the pail.

I instantly like people who laugh at my jokes. It's a weakness of mine.

I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

Saints and ordinary folks are the same from the start. Inquiring about a difference is like asking to borrow string when you've got a good strong rope. Every Dharma is known in the heart.

God is constantly on the move. I cannot stay where I am and follow God at the same time; responding requires movement.

Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.