To protect the sheep, you gotta catch the wolf. And it takes a wolf to catch a wolf, you understand?

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

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.

We know what hair smells like when a hot comb hits it. That's a cultural thing. We know what that smells like on Sunday mornings, usually church-related or something. In my house, it was getting ready for church and your sister was getting her hair fried.

Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well.

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.