I loved Bette Davis when I was little and when I was big and when I got old.

People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

It was more freedom than I think most people get when they're starting out - or even when they're not starting out. He [John Cassavetes] did his thing and I did whatever I thought.

If I have something I like to forget, then I forget it.

Never in my life have I ever even thought about anything else [ being anything other than an actress].

When I went to my parents I was at the University of Wisconsin, and I just couldn't wait anymore to go be an actress.

Of course, much easier to do a film when you're doing an extremely emotional part than it is doing it onstage over and over especially.

I think I have the only parents in the world who would not have said something against become an actress.

I just loved Bette Davis and the fact that I had a chance to work with her [on the 1979 TV movie Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter] was momentous.

You will be loved as much as you expect.

My passion is to keep my clients permanently satisfied with the quality of my work

I get very upset when money is being cut and people can't visit the Grand Canyon.

It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original.

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

Show respect for those in power, but do not follow them blindly.

Not until we have taken a look into the future shall we be strong and bold enough to investigate our paste honestly and impartially

No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.

I wonder if you've got a minute." I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.

There has been a little distress selling on the stock exchange.