My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.

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.

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chance of disillusionment.

I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.

For me, art, and especially music, exist to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence.

It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it.

It is an immense privilege to be able to play in the NHL. I was very blessed and a lot of things went my way to be able to make it.

Work hard. Come early, stay late. That's the way leadership has to approach it.

Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate our president [Barack Obama] and a lot of other Democrats.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.