What does the Academy Award mean? I don’t think it means much of anything.

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.

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.

But not all kids are exactly the same, Even when they share the same name.

Friendship increases in visiting friends but not in visiting them too often.

The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

Where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure.

Little Walter I would've liked to have played with

I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.

I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the same thing.

No one can keep you down but yourself

We shall never be able to effect physical disarmament until we have succeeded in effecting moral disarmament.

I never liked the idea of giving interviews. One says many things, but when they are published, they become shortened, condensed. The ideas lose their meaning.