I now want to be playing parts more interesting to me and more exciting to me.

There's nothing like the bravery and the strength and the extraordinary optimism of a five-year-old child in a cancer hospital, fighting to live. It's there inside the spirit.

Getting old is not for sissies, kid.

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

There is a thing called the death wish, a literal thing. It doesn't mean you want to die. It just means however we're built, as we get into these years, some inner part of you does begin to accept the fact that you're heading towards the end, and there's a peace that comes with that.

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

I would rather spend one night with Dracula dead than with my husband alive.