I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.

All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.

Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.

I just love kids. I always have.

I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching.

I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.

My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.

I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.

I am so glad that Jesus does not say, “Practice more spiritual disciplines.” He says, “Come to me…and I will give you rest.

You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.

I hate religion. I think it's a neurological disorder.

The issues in America are so big, and the problems are enormously complicated. But I am incredibly confident in Donald Trump to be able to execute on his promise to the people who elected him.

Elizabeth Taylor was so fat that whenever she went to London in a red dress, 30 passengers would try to board her.

The whole idea of worship being associated with music, it gives you an impotence to make art that is true, that is honest and that opens the human heart to God and to reality.

...[Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.

Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players confined to wheelchairs.

You can do anything if you accept the challenge, rise to the occasion, try harder, and drive it home!

As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.