If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.

The kind of acting I love is when you watch and you discover what you think perhaps you weren't supposed to see: the chink in the armor.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

If you're unhappy in a relationship, I think you just don't trust yourself for getting into another one.

An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.

I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person Ive worked with has helped me.

There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.

She must disappear for a time from the human surface, And sacrifice everything for this, To recreate herself from the depths of her world.

I’m beginning to wish I’d had you deported after the first murder! Death seems to follow you around like the plague.

You cannot go poking skeletons in the closet without making maggots wriggle." - Springfield Road

Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. Its the only way that I can do anything, even if Im quite useless. Its the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.

Even if the dramatic scenes are really hard, if you're happy with what you have and it's been creative and you had a good time with the people you worked with, that's a good day.

I think people imagine going back to a time when they knew who they were and they knew what the circumstances were - if you screwed up it was your fault.

There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for his work.

I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows and Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family.

What's on your mind becomes what's in your life. So think the thoughts you want to see.

Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine. But do I? Am I an addict? No. Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors, probably approximately about a year ago.