Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.

I'm surrounded by it. I have so many lovely people around me who are supportive, gentle, kind and considerate. I'm so grateful for every day that I'm on the planet and that continues to be so.

Life's too short to be working with divas.

That means more to me, truthfully, than commercial success. To be a loved human being is much more important to me then any of those other things.

He who quotes himself has a fool for a source.

I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age.

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon.

Don't just dream it. Be it!

There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.

Persistence is a necessary ingredient for success.

Every lover is a soldier.

It feels great to recall great times.

We are strong and proud and beautiful and there are not enough stars in the night sky to measure our worth. I will honor my mother and take care of my family.Yes, I think. I am just a woman.

President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.

Whether I'm a hero or a zero doesn't really matter. It's all perception.

I'm just a tough old woman.

Fusion has been my nemesis.

The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler.

They say, the tongues of dying men Enforce attention, like deep harmony; Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain; For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain.