Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

Taste. You cannot buy such a rare and wonderful thing. You can't send away for it in a catalogue. And I'm afraid it's becoming obsolete.

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

When something happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology.

Seal my lips on aches and pains. They are increasing, and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Moments. A couple of moments that people remember, that they can take with them, is what makes a good movie.

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice

Living one's life as if it is a competition between oneself and others, is an inevitable path to a stressful life.

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.

War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death.

I am an artist because the knot is so powerful I just can not, nor want to be, anything else or do anything else.

Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.

I think that if you don't think we're in a war that you can't win the war.

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

I don't like perpetuating the stereotype of black males being drug dealers, and criminals.