I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, which was in Carnegie Hall, which itself was exciting - just to walk into it.

People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

It was more freedom than I think most people get when they're starting out - or even when they're not starting out. He [John Cassavetes] did his thing and I did whatever I thought.

If I have something I like to forget, then I forget it.

Never in my life have I ever even thought about anything else [ being anything other than an actress].

When I went to my parents I was at the University of Wisconsin, and I just couldn't wait anymore to go be an actress.

I loved Bette Davis when I was little and when I was big and when I got old.

Of course, much easier to do a film when you're doing an extremely emotional part than it is doing it onstage over and over especially.

I think I have the only parents in the world who would not have said something against become an actress.

When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.

The jealousy and evilness are like worms, that destroy the soul.

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.

Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.

When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures, you can combine existing concepts into a large number of extraordinary ideas.

The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he could be moved to song, he can do nothing now, he must dig deeper.

I am an observer of life, a non-participant who takes no sides. I am in the regimented society, but not of it.

You are meant to understand the nature of your inner self, and to manifest it outward.

Reading is such a huge part of my life.