Lightbulbs die, my sweet. I will depart.

For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible.

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

There were a few things that went into it. When you're doing something you're trying to be your audience at the same time, so if somebody tells me that this is a movie about retired opera singers, you think 'maybe I'll wait for it to come to DVD'. You're not rushing off to see it.

Lightbulbs die, my sweet. I will depart.

I'm sixty-eight, I cry every chance I can.

The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.