All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.

I dig and plough at your command, ' I replied, 'but you will not tell me how to shit.

When you born again you are stepped into greatness and it means you are in zone of Miracles.

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.

Sometimes, an actress maybe knows how to think.

The only way to be totally free is through education.

I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of weapon.

I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through.

Laughter has no foreign accent.