A lot of writing about being a mother is not so much writing about the kids themselves. They become placeholders for the shift that happens when you're suddenly in charge of other people.

People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.

I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.

Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.

Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting.

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

Without money and without connections- I have failed you!

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.

The way you can recognize to what you are committed to is by your actual results. What you have gotten in life is a direct result (good or bad) to what you have been committed to.

It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.

Faith can take many different forms and expressions.

I love playing against Philip Rivers because he is so competitive, he is so fiery. You can just tell how he just gets his guys going.