I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent.

My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy life. I adored her. She worked hard all her life, and she was the one who set my values. She was quite an amazing woman, although she wasn't tough at all.

I am not a has-been. I am a will-be.

Isn't hope an incredible, a wonderfully demented thing?

You learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing.

A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.

I never believed marriage was a lasting institution . . . I thought that to be married for five years was to be married forever.