You know, people really don't understand what actors do.

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.

Helping others in need is not only a responsibility of life it is what gives meaning to life.

Teaching our children to live a quiet, sane, and balanced life is one of the most important parental tasks of our day.

Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort

If you continue to improve a product enough, you'll eventually ruin it.

The use of love is to heal. When it flows without effort from the depth of the Self, love creates health.

Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.

It may be true that love is blind, but only for what is ugly: its sight is keen enough for what is beautiful.

I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.

Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun

I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.