We listen too much to the telephone and too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing.

Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for - sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive or quiet and calm.

One of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter, complete silence.

The conductor has the advantage of not seeing the audience.

No woman is responsible for altering the psyche of her oppressor, even when that psyche is embodied in another woman.

It's incredibly difficult to keep a healthy body image in this business.

I think everything about my life is magical. I've struggled, and against most odds, I'm truly having the experience of living my dreams.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Being on stage is what I enjoy.

I think Obamacare has now taken over almost from regulation, which is ridiculous what's happening with overregulation, as the biggest single problem for opening and keeping businesses going.

I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.

Every writer has to write his speech.

It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two

Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.