Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.

I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.

I have disassociated myself from that book.

I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.

One cannot demand of art that it pay you in any other way than in the satisfaction of the work itself.

The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.

I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.