A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.

Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.'

Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful.

You write your life story by the choices you make.

It has nothing to do with clothing or makeup. Just put your shoulders back and chin up, and face the world with pride.

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'

I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.

Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

The essence of adversity is to show us the real brave people who can withstand it.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

An eternity is any moment opened with patience.

Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat.

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.

Back in the old days we used to smoke J's and got so blazed we called it the stone age

Autobiography is a genre notorious for falsehood.

There is no evil that the father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.

One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.