You may be a little older, or a little more neurotic, or a little more closed off. But inside, you're just the same.

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.

Things are more like they are now...than they have EVER been before!

Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

Trust your feelings entirely about colour, and then, even if you arrive at no infallible colour theory, you will at least have the credit of having your own colour sense.

A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.

There is no point in developing anything at the cost of exploiting and abusing animals.

Chinese workers are not forced into factories because of our insatiable desire for iPods. They choose to leave their homes in order to earn money, to learn new skills, and to see the world.

Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.

My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.