All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.

I work in the '60s more than I've done anything else. I did a movie, called Down with Love, in the '60s. I did a movie for HBO, about the Johnson administration in the '60s.

To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible can be possible.

The thing I worry about for myself is I spend a lot of time alone, and another person comes around and you're like, 'What are you doing here? Get out of here.

Nobody could ever say as many terrible things to me as I say to myself.

I remember feeling the temperature change the first time the curtain came up, the difference between the audience temperature and the stage temperature. I'll never forget it.

Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.

To me, most of life kind of lives in the grey and I don't just mean morally. I just mean kind of everything. If things were black and white it would be a lot clearer as to what to do all the time.

If I had my druthers, I would be working in all different mediums, forever.

I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.

I think it's very important for people to not judge the people you're playing. You have to find a way to love them because their story is theirs. I just don't think there would be any use in that.

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss.

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

America is a conservative country with a small "c" - they want change, but they don't want too much change too fast.

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

Psychology, which explains everything, Explains nothing, And we are still in doubt.

Now that I'm 60, every morning I look in the mirror and say, "I don't know who you are, stranger, but I'm gonna shave you anyway".

I know you think my life is good 'cause my diamond piece, But my life been good since I started finding peace.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

Before anything can be reasoned upon to a conclusion, certain facts, principles, or data, to reason from, must be established, admitted, or denied.