It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.

I have been disappointed many times, but never defeated.

One knows one's done one's job as a parent properly if one's children reject everything one stands for.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

I can't actually see myself putting make-up on my face at the age of sixty, but I can see myself going on a camel train to Samarkand.

I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.

Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink.