People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener.

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.

Trust becomes the only road home, back to love.

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.

And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.

Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through your resistance.

We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate.

My dear father! When I remember him, it is always with his arms open wide to love and comfort me.

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.

I dont walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. Its worse than bleak, its apocalyptic.

A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are.