There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don't want anyone to know about.

I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade.

There's no nobility with war. It's tear-'em-up destruction that leaves you frustrated, bitter and angry... If you really knew what it was like for an hour, you wouldn't want anyone to go through it.

I was doing judo before anybody knew it existed in this country.

That place that no one knows about - horrifying things we keep secret. A lot of that is released through acting.

In order for your dreams to come true, you've got to stay awake.

I was born looking older... and I've been aging since I was a teenager.

Dancing came easy for me. Acting came hard.

Acting is ephemeral. You can't hang it on a wall. You can't throw it off. And you can't bring it out of a closet. It's there one night and it's gone the next, at least with stage acting anyhow.

You make the money in movies and TV so you can do theater. I do a play a year... somewhere.

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.

We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.

So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?"

I'm a lousy predictor of the future.

I've never watched reality shows, except for the Great British Bake Off, which is magnificent.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

[On the birth of son William:] Thank goodness he hasn't got ears like his father.

Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.

Every discouraging sermon is a wicked sermon... There could hardly be a more un-Christian way of living than to go about in such a way as to depress and to discourage other people.