One piece of pie is delicious. Fourteen pieces are obviously nauseating.

Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.

I think if you're behind the times, you've failed. I think the only way to measure success is being right on time with what people want.

Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.

I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me.

Television is not my favorite medium, my favorite form of entertainment. Certainly game shows aren't. I don't watch reality shows at all.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

The family who prays will never be parted. Their circle in Heaven unbroken shall stand. God will say enter my good faithful servant. The family who prays never shall part.

I'm just attracted to human behavior and how people sometimes never would interact with one another or be in each other's sphere of awareness.

I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets.

The craving to become causes fears; to be, to achieve, and so to depend engenders fear.

Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.

There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.