You could do all the internships in the world but if you're not very bright, you might not get into the University of Chicago.

I'll see anything that Humphrey Bogart did. Weird, quirky, I know but that's the way it is.

I'm always interested in something that Helen Mirren is doing. I thought her series Prime Suspect was unbelievable. I think she might be my favorite actress.

I have great respect for Craig Lucas. I absolutely adore his sensibility.

I love Paris. I've been there a number of times.

The theater's been very good to me and I became Julie Halston through the theater.

A lot of times if you want to get another agent, agents actually make you do monologues in their offices. They still do that! You've got to come up with something!

Don't chew gum at an audition and wear really bad clothes. That doesn't work. You need to hear that! You need to hear practical advice.

I think actors really like to know what does a casting agent really think or what does a composer really think.

the silence of God is God.

Honor your father and your mother.

Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil.

Some homes need a hickory switch a good deal more than they do a piano.

More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.

In some ways we want definitions that can help protect our own interpretations of the genre.

'Do you know,' he asked in a delicious accent, 'what Dom Pérignon said after inventing champagne?' 'No?' I said. 'He called out to his fellow monks, 'Come quickly: I am tasting the stars!'

I now believe when I'm dead and buried my tombstone will read, "I'm not entirely sure the band's over."

There is no worse material poverty, I am keen to stress, than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them of the dignity of work.

I never hanker after the past - I prefer to devote myself to new tasks.