American Quotes

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

I always signed autographs when I could and always stayed and chatted with them when I could.

However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself.

Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.

But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love.

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

But I firmly believe that you can't be emotionally free until you are emotionally committed.

As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself.

And the test for any actor is whether you stay at the table or go away.

Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.

I'm a firm believer in absolute honesty.

Intelligence is enormously sexy.

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.

Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.

One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.

I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.

I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.

I talk to the universe all the time.

I suddenly discovered that acting made girls notice me.

I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.

I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosques.

Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

If I didn't have children I'd be a much better actress. I wouldn't be so distracted. I could pour 100 percent of my energies into it, to promote the investigation which acting is.

I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.