Well, I'm a tape-recording nut. I like to play my tapes.

There's only one thing worse than a man who doesn't have strong likes and dislikes, and that's a man who has strong likes and dislikes without the courage to voice them.

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

Every time I find a girl who can cook like my mother - she looks like my father

Museums, I love museums.

The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever.

Sooner or later, we sell out for money

You mustn't take any award so seriously.

Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.

So many people have won Emmys, so many people have won multiple Emmys that I think it's a degraded award.

Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.

[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist.

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.Deborah Norville

Character builds on characters. Very few can recognised them as a character, others should look for it until they get one.

The world is already yours - why try to conquer it?

This is the strange thing: Dancers don't age.

If people are portrayed as monsters, we become disconnected from them, and to me that is not remotely interesting.

Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.

You have to keep recycling yourself.

I just find that each year I try something new. You can't fight the march of time. To balance that out, each year you should develop one more good habit. It levels the playing field.

Truth is like nuclear waste: it needs to be dealt with carefully. Sometimes it needs to be buried way, way out of town. And sometimes it should never be uncovered at all.