Nationalism and extremism ... are spreading today like a cancerous growth in the fabric of people's national self-awareness.

Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.

Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart.

The calamity of war, wherever, whenever and upon whomever it descends, is a tragedy for the whole of humanity.

In our family we have always had, and still have, this understanding: the problem of each member of the family is everybody's problem.

A sociologist without an archive is like a person without a memory.

Remind me not to piss you off Red. You might aim for the heart and shoot me in the balls.

History was ignorant and had a mean streak, so it tended to repeat.

When you find the best path ahead of you, leave all other paths behind you!

Woodget glanced into the dim shadows behind the trees. "What you be hiding fer?" he called."On such a night as this even the greatest may hide and not be ashamed, " came the response.

You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, because I'm not.

We have all lost touch with life, we all limp, each to a greater or lesser degree.

Acting isn't a profession, it's a way of living.

When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

I've said maybe too many times that I'd rather be typecast than not cast at all.