Don't think for one minute, whoever you are, that you're not important. You're so vitally important to stand up and be heard and do what it is you do.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

I've never had my heart broken.

There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it.

I MUST go to what desperately frightens me - the chance of failure.

To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement.

What does the Academy Award mean? I don’t think it means much of anything.

Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.

My agent said, "You aren't good enough for movies." I said, "You're fired."

You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.

Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis.

Fall seven times, Stand up eight

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

I put a lot into my records, and I won't release anything I'm not totally thrilled with.

Everything gets blamed on the Clintons, every single thing in this world. I think Bill Clinton shot JFK, too.

Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.

Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else.

Every couple of years we'll watch the movie and it's like watching home movies, seeing the ranch on-screen. But that movie Heaven's Gate, people are appreciating it more and more as time goes on.

Disloyalty is the secret weapon of the Tory Party.

I don't like getting up early in the morning and learning all that stuff. I work with offers that I can't refuse.

Just because you can measure everything doesn't mean that you should.