The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.

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.

Prayer is like pearls.

Sometimes, God puts you in a position where you have no option but to trust Him.

Beneath the people we think we are, there are funnier, happier, livelier people that we keep ignoring.

In these electric times the criminal receives a cosmopolitan reputation. It is a privilege he shares with few other artists.

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.

The drug lord is on the run. His name is El Chapo. Donald Trump is in a Twitter feud with this Mexican drug lord. It's historic - the first time Americans have ever sided with a Mexican drug lord.

The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.

Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women.

You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.

Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.