Like a jerk, I went to a nutritionist and I ate the most repulsive, awful things. I didn't allow myself to eat chocolate cake and french fries and cheeseburgers.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

I've never had my heart broken.

There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it.

I MUST go to what desperately frightens me - the chance of failure.

To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement.

What does the Academy Award mean? I don’t think it means much of anything.

Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.

My agent said, "You aren't good enough for movies." I said, "You're fired."

You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis.

When you reach voting age, we will take your opinion under consideration.

Networked science has the potential to speed up dramatically the rate of discovery across all of science.

I was member of the Diet as long as it existed, until May 1933.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.

It is better to have wings then hornes.

I don't think most Americans understand that, for certain very wealthy people, our federal income tax system is a subsidy system that makes them richer.

Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained. Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.

That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.

I want to change peoples' minds about music, I want to bring the really brutal experimental stuff to peoples' attention.