I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.

If you're cast right you can actually just let yourself go because all your gestures will be right, all your intonations will be right because you just somewhere understand who this person is.

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.

You don't choose the theatre; The theatre choses you

I'm hyped up when I'm working. Some people eat when they're hyped up and some people don't. I'm the 'don't.

I mean, everybody's star fades in every business; that's just a natural part of life.

I like to use my hands. When I was in theatre in college, that was one of my biggest notes: 'You use your hands too much.

I don't think I ever wanted fame.

Anger is very difficult for me to express. I have a tremendous amount of anger but I like to save it . . . for my loved ones.

My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.

Amid all that blood of the dying sun, the verde was still alive.

I just live life. I grew up in a Christian family, but, you know, the way Mom brought me up is to, you know, do you, to always be yourself.

The gift without the giver is rare.

A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.

My own success was attended by quite a few failures along the way. But I refused to make the biggest mistake of all: worrying too much about making mistakes.

Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.

I see myself working, making a living and doing projects that I'm passionate about, regardless of the medium.

That's at the core of equity: understanding who your kids are and how to meet their needs. You are still focused on outcomes, but the path to get there may not be the same for each one.

They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.

From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.