In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I could do my whole life and always try to get better at.

With a horror movie, you dont want to anticipate where things are going to go.

I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.

Do we have to say goodnight? It just feels so final.... And then it feels like I HAVE to go to sleep, and then I just can't...

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.

Vision is the ability to see God’s presence, to perceive God’s power, to focus on God’s plan in spite of the obstacles.

Other human beings have a right to peace and happiness that is equal to our own; therefore we have a responsibility to help those in need.

Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the most thorough fashion.

We are not born with courage, but neither are we born with fear.

You can get away with stuff in a one-page story that you can't get away with in a book.

[on Edward Snowden] He should be brought back from Russia and given due process, and I think the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence.

I'm a country boy who hasn't really been exposed to city living, and it throws me.