I have a tendency to think of myself as the mutt of the litter. I'm not purebred.

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.

Our lives begin to end when we begin to forget to love.

Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.

What makes things exciting in life is to overcome your challenges and get creative and think outside of the box.

Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.

It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places.

If you don't change direction, you end up where you are headed.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

The true business of every company is to make and keep customers.

The world is full of signals that we don't perceive.

This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published.