When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are.

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.

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.

Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind.

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

Farewell, farewell to thee, Araby's daughter! Thus warbled a Peri beneath the dark sea.

The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.

I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.

What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?

She was everything he'd ever wanted, beauty and fire arching against his despoiling hands.

I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.

A woman without paint is like food without salt.

The most important thing whenever we're connecting kids to books, is that we try to match the book to the kid and make sure that reading is a fun, rewarding experience outside the classroom.