Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis.

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.

You may be a little older, or a little more neurotic, or a little more closed off. But inside, you're just the same.

I don't think people realizemilie-autumn-devils-carnivale that, once you turn your director's cut in, it's no longer yours.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian - to help them is.

I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone.

I'm who I was waiting for. I didn't make it.

It is hard to grow up in a society in which one's important problems are treated as nonexistent. It is impossible to belong to it, it is hard to fight to change it.

In Wales, it's eight different weathers in a day.

There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and volubility.

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.

Everyone has their own Everest to climb