I try to tell myself I’m not schizophrenic. But when I’m not acting, I’m not alive. Everyday is just not heightened enough for me. I’m more focused, more interesting when I’m working.

Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.

Its so funny whenever things come full circle.

Veni, vidi, visa - I came, I saw, I charged it.

When [we]were first married, [Wade] begged me to be practical...thank God I lived by my credo: 'Veni, vidi, visa - I came, I saw, I charged it.

It's great that I don't have to apologize about being over 26.

I keep both of my Tonys on my mantle. Theyre in front of a mirror so if you look at just the right angle, it looks like I have four!

The first thing I ask when Im offered a part is, Whos the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

To me, getting notes, honing the part, and refining the role is the real fun of the play.

I love to be directed, and I can glean something from almost anyone.

I think these are terrible times to be anything in.

Life is fragile.Be cautious in life.

The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.'

No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.

I would love for the world to have a dog psychology center everywhere.

because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes out of a Southern mouth is bound to be a ringing line.

The way of humanity is to turn everything into a marketable product. But when we turn something into a marketable product it loses something.

There are some beings who reach a point where they no longer want to move through the ten thousand states of mind. There is something else. It is beyond subject and object. That is nirvana.

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

I only have the restaurant. If I do other things, it's only to do with the restaurant.

It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.