I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.

There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back.

The attitude of 'every nation unto itself' is a destructive one for the future of Israel.

I have forgiven all the old actors for dying. A new one comes on with the same lines, like large white growths, in his mouth. The dancers come on from the wings, perfectly mated.

I just don't see myself as the heroine in my own narrative.

I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up like they were electric or something. Electric lilies. Lighting up the Valley.

I don't like to say. I like to just surprise people.

If you try to target a movie at kids, you end up with something that makes parents take a nap.

One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.

Even in an apocalypse like this, surely running out of Coke qualified as a disaster.

[I provoke] the system [to] show its true face ... so that through its own acts of terrorism ... the masses will rise against it.

Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.