Fear is where the information is.

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.

Be daring. Better to fail spectacularly then stay safe and achieve meh. -- Anonymous

The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

You have to keep practicing, if you're really going to be good.

In appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion seeks above all to do good.

Every issue of life is determined not by external conditions and things, but by one's consciousness.

There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.

Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.