The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

I've never had my heart broken.

There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it.

I MUST go to what desperately frightens me - the chance of failure.

To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement.

What does the Academy Award mean? I don’t think it means much of anything.

Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.

My agent said, "You aren't good enough for movies." I said, "You're fired."

You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis.

If you look up feminist in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights.

For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.

Life is a battle of wits, and many people have to fight it unarmed.

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

It's very important to distinguish between chemical depression that requires medication and talk therapy.

You are reduced / To the after-sorrow / That will last my lifetime. The hair-tearing / Grief of the mother / Whose child has been swept away.

I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things seem to go together.

The fear that all this will end. The fear that it won't.

I'm more interested in life than life-style.