I'm highly emotional, so I'm highly aware of humiliation.

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.

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

I think you want to write a song that's like the songs you are into.

Anything can happen. That's the beauty of creating.

I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes?" You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement.

It's fantastic that the world is becoming more open to different ways of working, but we still have a long way to go in terms of changing perceptions.

Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow.

It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is

I feel somewhat responsible for the Borders Books bankruptcy.

Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.

Bryant Gumbel's ego has applied for statehood. And if it's accepted, it will be the fifth-largest.