There's always something more to be accomplished with a character. Theater is a human experience. There's nothing shellacked or finished off about it. I guess that's why it always draws me back.

I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

Can a mother commit a greater sin than ignoring her intuitions?

But I like to swim. At high school, I tried out for the swim team. I shaved off all my body hair, and that extra burst of speed from all the bullies shouting Kill the fairy.

Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tone of that harmony.

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.

I'm an accomplice to helping women get what they want.

We have to get rid of excuses, no matter why you are the way you are, don't let it be an excuse to stay that way.

Whenever I say goodbye its never for long because I believe in the power of love.

Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.

It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.