Fear is concealed in smiles and flashing teeth. 'Please say you still love me,' the kings and queens are really saying. And, when they fare badly, they return to their palaces and sleep fitfully.

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.

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

I think we have to do something about the environment and how we are polluting the planet.

He's a real gentleman. I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it.

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.

The pickings are pretty slim when you have to play the part of a housewife who doesn't go out of her apartment because she's afraid she's going to get mugged, or a woman who turns into her brother, who is a murderer.