There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.

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.

We recruit for attitude and train for skill,

I always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.

He who has gotten rid of the disease of "tomorrow" has a chance of achieving what he is here for.

We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention.

Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.

Americans have powerfully sensed that we're off track. There is a structural challenge in our economy that needs to be addressed.

Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.

Artists are sometimes in a position to tell the truth, but they're positioned as a Cassandra. They're gifted with impeccable prophecy and the assurance of never being listened to.

Over the long haul of life on the planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.

That's the trouble with our charities; we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating.