To me Polanski is one of the greats in terms of psychological horror. It's just hard to top him because he's so damn good at it.

Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them.

The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.

Most actors are starving. Most of us are walking around with a flashlight and tweezers looking for evidence. When you have someone that actually writes an acting role, it's rare.

Sometimes you have to search for inspiration with characters, and other times, they just drop out of the sky and arrive.

My past is not pleasant; I grew up in a very tough town, Waterbury, Connecticut. I grew up in New York, too, but Waterbury was tougher.

Media runs the world, and it all changed, I think, when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened, and first of all we saw them on television, and that changed everything.

I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood.

Dark Blue is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever going to change.

I like the Polanski stuff more than anything else. Rosemary's Baby is still one of my favorite movies of all time. The idea of her being impregnated with the devil is just so frightening.

Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

I make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months.

Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!

I think when one has talent one finally breaks through; so don't pass up any opportunity to do some work.

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.

There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe.

Listen to the whisperings of the Spirit, the gift of revelation to which you are entitled.

Sometimes, I need to be high off the ground to keep grounded.

Retain a calm heart, sit like a turtle, walk swiftly like a pigeon, and sleep like a dog

I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how do we know? How do we know if we don't do it?' I said, 'I think you're wrong.'