I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.

I'm too direct and too unsparingly impatient.

When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.

Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.

Women love working together. That's my experience anyway.

When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.

I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor.