Ask Anthony Hopkins how he makes his characters come to life and he just shrugs. I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't be able to do it. As they say: Where ignorance is bliss it's folly to be wise.

For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Worry is today's mouse eating tomorrow's cheese.

Free is not the same as free and easy.

To be the other womanis to be a seasonthat is always about to end, when the air is floweredwith jasmine and peach, and the weather day after dayis flawless, and the forecastis hurricane.

Believe reality is what you were taught was myth.

I'm not manic-just happy. It has been such a long time since I was happy. Please join me on my magic carpet for now.

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

Often you just have to rely on your intuition.

A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.

I don't walk around talking about my life and spouting my philosophy to people I don't know. I mean, if I get to know them, I'll talk for hours. I guess I like a lower-key scene.

The purpose of laughter is to bring one to silence, and the purpose of silence is to bring one to laughter.

Everything in food works together to create health or disease.