If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.

It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.

It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.

'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring.

In 1919 I woke up famous. I'd never guessed it. If I'd known I was famous, I'd have stolen away and wept. I was stupid. I was supposed to be intelligent. I was sensitive and very dumb.

It's not the side-effects of the cocaine - I'm thinking that it must be love. It's too late to be grateful, It's too late to be hateful, It's too late to be late again, The European cannon is here.

I find that a lot of women respond to my work in that it doesn't make them feel bad about themselves.

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

There's nothing more important than a good story.

Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.