People in distress behave in a stressful way. They aren't all sweetness and light. They don't behave well when they are unhappy. That's just what I've observed.

It's true, I've become one of those grumpy older women.

Acting attracts shy people and show-offs.

I have spent my whole life educating myself.

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?

You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go.

You don't go to a comedy and try to laugh. You laugh in spite of yourself. You don't just come on stage and cry. Something has pushed you to cry.

I've learnt to listen. I don't think I always did listen.

When you play someone who is an iconic figure you can't go into it lightly.

I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.

She's an array of undiscovered words, of feeling beyond my threshold. I'm just a man, trying to hold himself together in her wake.

Not only the dead are dead but also those who are deprived of their freedoms are also dead!

success is easy with just a prayer, encouragement and patience!

All I ever wanted was to make my parents proud. What happens when I can't be proud of them?" --Shea Evenstar

Courage must come from the soul within; the man must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad. You were born with all that the great have had.

Go to a graduation party, put out a fish bowl, and you have a gold record.

Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?

I made myself platinum, but I was born a dirty blonde.

Has anyone ever told you that you lack focus?

Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.