"When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind."

“I've been very fortunate to work for great people - so even when the political process gets ugly, I find inspiration in the people around me.”

“Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“We come from an environment molded from 3 billion years of evolution, and when we change our behavior, there may be problems.”

“Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.”

Source : Quoted in Goodrich and Bry GeorgiaO'Keeffe (1970).

“I see a lot of people who have amazing stories but have been told that their work, their lives, and their stories and not the stuff of literature. Or they're first-generation college student, first-generation American, and their family just doesn't understand the art world. They have a lot of guilt. "We came all the way from [wherever] so you could do this?" Those people may not be showing the moxie, but that's because they don't even know what's possible. So I want to jump in and say, "Actually, your story is amazing, and I believe in you.".”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“Accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate. Every aviator knows that if mechanics are inaccurate, aircraft crash. If pilots are inaccurate, they get lost-sometimes killed. In my profession life itself depends on accuracy.”

“A science or an art may be said to be "useful" if its development increases, even indirectly, the material well-being and comfort of men, it promotes happiness, using that word in a crude and commonplace way.”

“If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor - poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.”

Source : Forbes magazine, quoted in "The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life", p. 302, 1950.