The whole world is waiting. The whole world needs you.

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.

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

In the midst of life we are in debt.

To go out there and play and have fun and hopefully win a championship. That's my goal.

After quitting radio I was able to live on the money I saved on aspirins.

The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.

I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged.

Politics is topical - it's what's happening now, and we can either respond in the present or avoid it.

Look, any cut in greenhouse gases is going to be expensive for American consumers, who are in no mood to bear additional costs.

Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little.