You don't choose the theatre; The theatre choses you

If you're cast right you can actually just let yourself go because all your gestures will be right, all your intonations will be right because you just somewhere understand who this person is.

I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.

I'm hyped up when I'm working. Some people eat when they're hyped up and some people don't. I'm the 'don't.

I mean, everybody's star fades in every business; that's just a natural part of life.

I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.

I don't think I ever wanted fame.

Anger is very difficult for me to express. I have a tremendous amount of anger but I like to save it . . . for my loved ones.

My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.

The arrow's away and you're pulling the second before the first hits its mark

Becoming conscious of racism does not mean you are a racist.

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

Terror collided violently with reason.

My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience.

Feel the feeling as though the prayer has already been answered, and in that feeling we are speaking to the Forces of Creation, allowing the world to respond to us.

These soldiers had done what they had done, and been done unto in return. This was how it went. In the cycle of slaughter, reprisal begat reprisal, forever.

Experiments that crash atoms together could start a chain reaction that erodes everything on Earth.

Sitting in the morning sun, I'll be sitting when the evening comes