You can't control how other people see you or think of you. But you have to be comfortable with that.

I am for peace and all kinds of ways because the total reality is that you never quite, at least in my experience, you never quite get to be peaceful in the profession that we have all chosen. It's a constant yearning, a constant reaching out for the unreachable. And so you never quite find peace within yourself. You are always questioning yourself and challenging yourself and feeling that you would fall short.

People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out.

Women are always self-effacing and self-denying. There's a term that enrages me, and I always used to swear that I'd never play characters described that way. The term is "long-suffering."

Ill-informed intuition is fantastic - it's what great art is. So really old painters or writers or actors are brilliant, because they've finally reached the point when they can let go of al technique.

It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically .

You know, you have to allow life to play itself out, don't you? And one thing you learn is that it doesn't stop. It moves on.