American Quotes

I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from.

I drink red wine on ice to water it down.

I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.

I don't carry little purses. I carry big duffels, always.

I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.

I am absolutely intrigued by life, and I really want to hold onto it.

As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.

As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.

It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.

Because too much of my life was spent waiting to be seen. Hoping to be seen, hoping to be picked. Once you realize that you aren't looked at that way any more, other things start to happen and you have to depend on other things to get by.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're rais

I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.

I look forward to continuing to represent the people I'm currently serving, as well as the new communities that will be a part of this district in the future.

I hope that the residents of my current district - from Quincy to Provincetown and the Islands - know that their well-being is my primary concern and nothing changes that.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt.

Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.

The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast.

It does make you a better director and a better actor.

Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week.

In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback.

In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld.

I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.

I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams.

I have two delightful sons, who I love dearly.

I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created.

Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.