If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting.

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.

Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole

The more you treat yourself positively, the less you'll want or need to be negative.

The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.

Future never desires to become a past.

My words itch at your ears till you understand them

When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.

Perhaps I was too saucy and provoking.

I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting.

Violet, the Dowager Countess: “I mean, one way or another, everyone goes down the aisle with half the story hidden.

Agustus asked if I wanted to go with him to Support Group, but I was really tired from my busy day of Having Cancer, so I passed.

Well, it's practically over, thank God - I'm 83, there won't be that much more of it to put up with I don't think!

Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.