I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.

There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.

I'm surrounded by it. I have so many lovely people around me who are supportive, gentle, kind and considerate. I'm so grateful for every day that I'm on the planet and that continues to be so.

Life's too short to be working with divas.

That means more to me, truthfully, than commercial success. To be a loved human being is much more important to me then any of those other things.

He who quotes himself has a fool for a source.

I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age.

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon.

Don't just dream it. Be it!

There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.

I knew there was something peculiar about you, " she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment." I'd always known I was strange. I never dreamed I was peculiar.

Virtue makes for a cold bed.

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

I think the kick to doing comedy is just to get in a film with really funny people and let them do their jobs. I find that in most comedies, I'm not the funny one, which works out great.

I don't want to be that girl who has that same style all the time where the music always sounds exactly the same, and you always know it's her.

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone

Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.

And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.

The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy...