I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person.

I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize.

I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.

Throw in the humor, throw in that personality, try things you wouldn't normally try.

We had this scene where I'm supposed to be bending over to get something. I thought it was kind of cute.

Whether we wound or are wounded, the blood that flows is red.

When a mortal man breaks a people, it is always blamed on the gods.

There can be no real fight between a tiger and a chicken

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Being stupid is not as frustrating as being brilliant for 5 seconds and then average for the rest of your life

It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.

The one thing I take more joy in than anything else in the world is seeing young people develop

I would absolutely like to play more leading roles. There’s no philosophy - well, the only philosophy, I suppose, is to try and do different things.