An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.

The kind of acting I love is when you watch and you discover what you think perhaps you weren't supposed to see: the chink in the armor.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

If you're unhappy in a relationship, I think you just don't trust yourself for getting into another one.

If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.

I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person Ive worked with has helped me.

There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.

It hurts that I was just one page in the book of your life…But what hurts more is knowing you’ll revise that chapter someday….….. and you’ll erase me completely.

There is no such thing as lack of time, only unclear priorities and lack of motivation. It is better to abandon a project than to work on it half-heartedly for a protracted period of time.

I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group.

Art keeps one young, I think, because it keeps one perpetually a beginner, perpetually a child.

My hunch is that if we allow ourselves to give who we really are to the children in our care, we will in some way inspire cartwheels in their hearts.

People who plan their life when they're 18 years old and say, "This is my life plan," would generally be surprised and maybe disappointed.

I have a really great relationship with God. I pray. I read the Bible.

Though like the wanderer, The sun gone down, Darkness be over me, My rest a stone; Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer, my God, to Thee.

I think I'd like to see CDs disappear. Too much plastic crap lying around. If I want some music these days, I'm gonna either get as MP3s or on vinyl.

Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker.