I'm so lucky to have a career in my fifties. And to still have the desire to do it. I don't think about retirement.

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.

I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.

There are many ways to be a mother. I have a lot of young actors I mentor, and my nieces and my nephews need a lot of love.

I'm certainly not a prude.

I'm a woman of a certain age who doesn't have kids and never really settled down ... I enjoy kids but not for long periods. I think they're adorable and funny and sweet, and then I have a headache.

When I see a woman who looks her age, she's radiating something, and it's life.

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

I've learned that I can't have a packed work schedule and a packed social schedule and a packed personal life; I need to just have time to myself to sit and breathe and unwind.

That's what life is - you follow where your heart leads you - at least I do.

Regarding war and peace—the seeds of each are planted in the other.

Your discovery determines what you are known for

You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.

In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.

I don't associate much with anybody. I'm not big on all the teachings and groups and being a part of something, I guess.

To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.

What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe.’

Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.

Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.

Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign.