Acting has been my lover and best friend. My confidant and my tormentor. It has given me support and broken my heart and mended it.

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.

At the miraculous moment, when you meet Jesus Christ, you shall be made well.

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.

The cheap drama brings cause and effect, will power and action, once more into relation and gives a man the thrilling conviction that he may yet be master of his fate.

I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.

Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.

'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

I am working with various music producers and hope to be releasing music.

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.

They have horses in 'Snow White?' I am lucky nothing nasty happens to horses in 'Snow White.