I outlived the bastards..

Nothing is put on pause. Everything is still happening. And then as far as just reflecting on what got you to where you are, there aren't very many t….

I don't take things off. I either check things off or I add things..

As an actor - and I say actor, but actress or actor, whatever - I've had to learn to be very open about what I want. I ask for it, even if I may not ….

Discover what you are..

I'm not an actor. I can show up for friends and improvise a little bit, but I'm not an actor..

I didn't not perform..

Nothing is 'just' anything with you.

...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is..

If my father's business hadn't gone broke, I'd be exporting nuts, bolts and sugar machinery right now. What an awful thought!.

What makes Jay Johnstone unusual is that he thinks he's normal and everyone else is nuts..

Meryl Streep is awesome. I really want to work with Emma Stone; she is adorable. Now I want to work with Octavia Spencer, because I met her and she's….

We are being programmed by mental pygmies..

I am service-centric. I always intend to leave places better than I find them..

I respect religion and will respect any religion..

I'm not hooked on cognac, but I've enjoyed it over the years..

I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics..

To be extraordinarily happy and to have no concern for money drives some people nuts..

Where I came from, no one was a writer..

We have found ourselves in the period of "interregnum": the old works no more, the new is not yet born. But the awareness that without it being born ….

Underconfidence breeds underachievement..