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

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.

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.

You may be a little older, or a little more neurotic, or a little more closed off. But inside, you're just the same.

What we have left behind is beautiful, captivating, and inviting. What lies ahead of us is magnificent and mind boggling.

Humility and brokenness before God is the key to making your body the dwelling place of God

And what do they want!?

You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things will happen, so the best prevention is a positive attitude.

Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?

the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

It [moviemaking] is all a relationship business. It's a personal business. It's all personal relationships, if you're lucky enough to build on one to the other.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

.......the truth is, while the FBI is hiding behind the 5th Amendment, the Unabomer is qualifying for Social Security as a terrorist. Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.