It takes me 10 minutes to get ready to go out, and that includes the shower.

Folks can believe what they like but eventually a man's got to declare if he's going to do what is right.

I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.

When accepting or preparing for a role, fear is the motivating factor.

Nothing misleads people like the truth.

I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw.

Football? Forget it. I didn't have that thing inside me where I wanted to smash against somebody and watch them break. I was too sensitive for that and disliked being that sensitive.

I'm really, really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.

It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things.

Fear - there's always fear. You re-create yourself in every movie, don't you?

My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with a lot of giggles and nervousness.

So they went running together, silent, toward the vast wastes of snow where no living thing but they two moved under the stars of night.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

I do believe in [Robert] Bresson's method of creation through omission, not through addition.

It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

Ideas exist in the marketplace; they are thrown out for everyone to use.

I want people to look like people when they're dancing.

The old laws of England they Whose reverend heads with age are gray, Children of a wiser day; And whose solemn voice must be Thine own echo Liberty!

I didn't have many ups and downs, and I just tried to par every hole.

Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.