Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does.

Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.'

Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful.

You write your life story by the choices you make.

It has nothing to do with clothing or makeup. Just put your shoulders back and chin up, and face the world with pride.

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'

I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.

Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

My message to you all is of hope, courage, and confidence.

To a fireman, wind is a curse. To a sailor, wind is a blessing.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Reverb does that thing where you make one sound and it grows to 20 times its original size and fills everything up.

The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.

When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself.

I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

Part of me wanted to get a graduate degree in political science. Had I done that, I suppose I would have become a college professor.

I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.