I once asked Barbara Stanwyck the secret of acting. She said: 'Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made'.

How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?

People that don’t move will never notice the chains they carry.

It is essential that children who are directly or indirectly affected by domestic violence receive psychological care.

The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.

Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to hell with them.

But oh, she dances in such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

When I wrote about the Spanish Civil War many years later, I used documents that I picked up when I was a child, as a lot hadn't been published (a lot more resources are available now).

I think I was nervous enough, even at 3:00 a.m., that you could hear my heart beating over the microphone.

I grew up fascinated with comedy and with people who could capture someone's attention.