I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!

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.

Because thou writest me often, I thank thee ... Never do I receive a letter from thee, but immediately we are together.

Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can].

If you're sexy and you know it put your hands up in the air. Put your hands up in the air, girl, put your hands up.

Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

I get up about four times a night and go back to sleep, or not. Then I swill tea around 8 a.m. I answer e-mail, while I stall thinking about whatever scares me.

Watches may disagree, but let us not.

The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.

You know you're old when your family talk about you in front of you. What are we going to do with Pop? We have company tonight.

Speech is silver, silence is golden.