I read a lot of scripts, so I know by page 25 if I like it or not.

What is necessary is never unwise.

You are fully capable of deciding your own destiny. The question you face is: which path will you choose? This is something only you can decide.

You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.

The most comfortable place on earth is the arms of a mother.

I have to learn to find that inner core of strength that I am definitely made up of and stretch it into areas where I don't always use it.

I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

My upstairs brain and my downstairs brain engaged in a game of risk and it was downstairs’ turn to roll the dice.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

A strict master will not have understanding sons.

[Charles] Reznikoff was in between faiths, in between worlds... a double, hyphenated American. I think it probably goes deeper than that.

A goal of education is. to assist growth toward greater complexity and integration and to assist in the process of self-organization - to modify individuals capacity to modify themselves.

I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.

Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable.