I love to go into the studio on days when I'm not even doing anything. It's like my senior club. Some people go to senior centers, well I go to my senior center.

One never knows how loyalty is born.

Microbes are just nature's janitors who work to clean up a poorly kept culturing medium. Trying to keep microbes off of and out of your body is like trying to keep the wind out of the trees.

I like the normal things of life: I like the Mets, and the Celtics, and the N.Y. Rangers. I like to watch C-Span; I love Costco.

If acids win - you lose!

John Lithgow was absolutely wonderful in 'Dexter,' there's no doubt about it.

What you do not eliminate - you accumulate.

The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare.

My memorization skills aren't that great so I need help in that area. As far as everything else, I listen to the director. I'm someone who doesn't argue. I hit my marks and say the lines.

I lead a simple life. I get residuals. I have a family; we're doing alright.

I think I'm pretty much down to earth, and I'm not really way, way out there.

Maybe I should have gone into politics. If you were a political activist, election season brought moments of intensity, whichever side you were on, and meanwhile here I was inarguably withering away,

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.

I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.

I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

I was raised to be a very strong and independent woman without anybody ever saying the word feminist or having any political conversation.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.