I MUST go to what desperately frightens me - the chance of failure.

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

You know, people really don't understand what actors do.

Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.

I've never had my heart broken. It's a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I don't think it says anything good about me at all.

There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it.

The people who stand on the sidelines and criticize aren't actually in the arena, spilling their blood.