I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

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.

Be one with yourself and revel in eternal bliss.

Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

Politics are a smooth file, which cuts gradually, and attains its end by slow progression.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.

A weapon isn't good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.

I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play, but in the spiritual arena there are people who are even closer to me than that.

The minute you feel like you've completed something you lose that momentum. I've learned how to avoid that. That's the bottom line.

I'm not going to just take office in January, I'm going to take responsibility.

They think I'm depressed because I look serious in photos. It's usually because I'm just nervous. But I've stopped dressing for other people. If I think I look good, that's the most important thing.