It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life.

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.

Doing classic plays is wonderful. It's a wonderful way of developing style.

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.

Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.

Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch?

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do

Why would we need music if our lives were exactly as we wanted them to be?

Every great achievement started with a dream and every failure bred by staring eyes.

Dreams can be of value even if you don’t have an opportunity to turn them into reality.

Gifts become curses when they’re not given their due respect.

I hate last-minute shopping, it's always unsuccessful.

We haven't been happy with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached.

England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.

Blood streams in sacrifice; yet anguish finds no cure.

But I'm a racer, that's what I've always been. I just want someone to put me in a car and leave me there.

Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.