I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.

If you're cast right you can actually just let yourself go because all your gestures will be right, all your intonations will be right because you just somewhere understand who this person is.

I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.

You don't choose the theatre; The theatre choses you

I'm hyped up when I'm working. Some people eat when they're hyped up and some people don't. I'm the 'don't.

I mean, everybody's star fades in every business; that's just a natural part of life.

I don't think I ever wanted fame.

Anger is very difficult for me to express. I have a tremendous amount of anger but I like to save it . . . for my loved ones.

My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.

Knowledge is NOT power. The correct application of knowledge is power.

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

To look like you are a real sports fan, when there is a game on TV just yell, Oh, come on! every now and then at the TV.

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.

He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . .

I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.

Why so pale and wan, fond lover, Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?

I dont want to just be a broker all my life, I want to lead.

I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.

Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful.