So many miseries have craz'd my voice, That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

No legacy is so rich as honesty.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

It is not in our stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The Eyes are the window to your soul

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

What do you say becomes less relevant when it is compared with how do you say it.

If I wasn't an actress I'd want to be a writer or else find a job where I got to read books and watch movies all day, everyday, for the rest of my life.

The Coens both give you direction, and then it's up to you to kind of figure out the music of what they're saying.

Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment, not forcing any particular style.

I believe each human being has the potential to change, to transform one’s own attitude, no matter how difficult the situation.

I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.

Anything called a "program" is unconstitutional.

The unique thing that literature provides is to be able to step so fully into another situation and condition.

Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.

I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.