Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is.

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.

If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?

There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.

Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do.