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.

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

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.

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.

...But all that power has culminated in gentleness. It is as if that is the point of power: to allow one to access the higher registers of gentleness.

Though blue sky and the road’s yellow dust and the green of the nearing oasis were all snuffed out, he (newly converted Saul) did not miss them. Light suffused his blinded eyes, his mind.

Music should be your escape.

One prisoner of conscience is one too many.

I wondered why life had to suck so hard sometimes.

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.

Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.

All the Dachaus must remain standing.

I try so hard to live in the moment - I don't think ahead very much.

Some walks you have to take alone.