People say as a woman actor your career is over at 40. But then they told me I would never work again after I was 16.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please-you can never have both.

Being superintendent or the superintendent's chief of staff is important work, but there's no chance it's as difficult as being a teacher, and I hesitate to say that it's as important.

When I was seven, I had been very vocal about wanting to be an actor. And my mom decided that we would try it out for a couple weeks and come to L.A. from Sacramento.

our greatest compatibility was in how we complemented each other's neuroses.

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.

The word love carries the same vibration in any language.

In the town of Bethlehem many years ago, a man got religion and he changed the status quo.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.

The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.