Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.

Doing classic plays is wonderful. It's a wonderful way of developing style.

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.

Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.

Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch?

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do

The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.

I've learned my tricks. I know what I like. I do not wait around. I initiate. And I'm not all about frequency - I favor intensity.

Precisely that, covering 500 years of African-American history in six hours. I've been working on this for seven years. The biggest challenge was deciding which stories to tell.

When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

When I get down on my knees, it is not to pray.

The Americans, of course, are quite dotty with hospitality.

It is a remarkable coincidence that almost everyone has the same religion as their parents and it always just so happens they're the right religion.