An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.

If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.

If you're unhappy in a relationship, I think you just don't trust yourself for getting into another one.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

I had never heard anyone play like Benny Goodman and had never seen anyone like him on the stage. I realize now that what impressed me and stayed with me in memory was - the sounds he made. He played so purely. The music seemed to come from him, not just the instrument he played with such mastery.

An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.

My grandmother always used to say, "If you know your past and you know where you have to go, why do you rehearse?" I always remember this and it's true. You have to start each day again-you can't repeat what you did.