I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

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.

... even though we belong to three different religions. We are alike in so many more ways than we are different.

You cannot run a multimillion-dollar business like you would a lemonade stand.

Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot.

Angel... I don't think you understand the lengths I would go to if it means keeping you here with me.' -Patch (PG 262)

To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man.

What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.

And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.