Telephone operators have called me sir since I was 6.

Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding themselves.

I don't sit around and wait for great parts. I'm an actress, and I love being one, and I'll probably be doing it till I'm 72, standing around the back lot doing Gunsmoke.

It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.

Every hardship you endure and every failure you withstand could very well be the stepping stone to success and the realization of your God-given dream.

The truth is stranger than fiction . . . and often more incriminating.

I keep telling people I want to close the deficit, and one of the deficits is want to close is the fun deficit.

Global climate change needs global action now. The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world.

Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.

Our devil has pale skin and blue eyes

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

I think vulnerability is one of the most amazing things about music.

I've always been a relaxed person on set, but I think the main thing is I think about it from an editing point of view way more than I did before.