I've grown used to being lonely over the years, so I don't seek to change it. But aren't there many people who are lonely?

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.

Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty.

Twelve Highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.

When a man wantonly destroys a work of man we call him a vandal when a man destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.

The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism.

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.

Never give up! And remember, determination is as important as talent.

We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.

I love to listen to Howard Stern with the guy who drives me.

If not now, then when ? If not you, then who ?

If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.