As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.

I've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there was Huck Finn and "Spin And Marty." The boys characters were interesting and you lived through them when you're watching it.

Wrinkled, wrinkled little star... hope they never see the scars.

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.

You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.

The best thing about acting is when you're playing a scene and you actually become your character and lose yourself in that moment. That's when you know you've been succeeded at what you've worked very hard to accomplish in your profession. Those are the truly thrilling moments.