I'm the world's worst bearer of grudges. I'm sure I'll be bearing grudges and paying off old scores on my death-bed.

I'm less confident now than I've ever been. In this peculiar craft, confidence is something you spend a lifetime losing. I used to be frightened only one night a week but now I'm frightened of every performance. I mean really frightened.

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.

To counter-balance the natural humility of motherhood, I garden ... In the garden, more than any place, I really feel successful.

ability atrophies through lack of exercise.

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

I have been disappointed many times, but never defeated.