The kind of acting I love is when you watch and you discover what you think perhaps you weren't supposed to see: the chink in the armor.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

If you're unhappy in a relationship, I think you just don't trust yourself for getting into another one.

An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.

If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.

I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person Ive worked with has helped me.

There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.

You don't understand the power of loss when it first hits you like a baseball coming fast from an out-of-control pitcher....It's the third day after an injury when the pain really starts to throb.

...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily.

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation.

A man is no better than he has to be.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.

There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one.

They're two types of people; those who are busy being about it and those who talk about it.

George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night.

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance.