I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

We rehearsed for two weeks [in "Fences"], and we taped out the whole house in the front, and the rooms, and we stood it up like a play. We tried to get off book and gave people small props.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

[Having monologue] are talking to somebody even if it's just to yourself, convince yourself if that's what you're trying to do.

There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn't work the other way around.

I'm a positive person, so I don't get bogged down with it. If you're expecting that, if you wall in that, if you practice that, then you'll attract what you fear.