Once you've got a bull terrier, you never want another dog. I've got six bull terriers, a rottweiler and a bulldog.

If it doesn't sweat, jiggle, or pant, it's not alive.

Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.

What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

America needs to be a lot more like the Waltons and a lot less like The Simpsons.

My philosophy is that the club is more important than anyone!

I was thinking, who of the English actresses in the last 30 or 40 years have achieved as much as I have?

You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.

It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.

Time on its back bears all things far away - Full many a challenge is wrought by many a day - Shape, fortune, name, and nature all decay

Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.