The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you were doing it for the first time.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

When you recognize what your talents are, a happy life is developing them to the greatest extent you can.

She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.

I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!

Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate the art of acting, I would say the actress I most admire is Vanessa Redgrave.

I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.

I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice.

To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.

They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed.

Then in came this script with another very low offer, and another drug addict and a depressing and difficult part to play. I thought, 'Why should I put myself through that for hardly any money?'

I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.

Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.

One should never mistake pattern for meaning.

You cannot travel within and stand still without.

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

New Jersey shaped who and what I am. Growing up in Jersey gave you all the advantages of New York, but you were in its shadow. Anyone who's come from here will tell you that same story.

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

Professional athletes die twice.