I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

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.

I don’t know any writers who don’t drink.

I just took some ecstasy, ain't no tellin' what the side effects could be.

All things except reason and order are possible with a mob.

Sometimes I think high school is one long hazy activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become an adult. I hope it's worth it.

I will always be singing.

Because of you, I'm running out of reasons to cry.

When your effort results in the desired effect, then you have worked.

Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.

I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.