I feel it's like being a kid and dressing up, because that's what Baby Jane is.

Charles Pierce, Bea Arthur, and I were like a terrible little trio.

A foolish mind would not raise an eyebrow when things are done diff erently in a foreign culture. An educated mind would try to understand the meaning of it all.

Those aren't doors, and they're not opening. Those are crypts, Richie. They're cracking open and the vampires you thought were dead are all flying out again.

Did you see the statue topple? Bill Clinton got nostalgic seeing something that big in a beret go down.

Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice.

An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.

The greatest artists always come round to simplicity.

The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.

The universe always gives you what you need to grow into the person you are destined to become.

Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.

What is companionship where nothing that improves the intellect is communicated, and where the larger heart contracts itself to the model and dimension of the smaller?