“ Silence is golden when it’s called for. Silence can be deadly when it’s not called for ”

“Acting is not about being someone different. It’s finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.”

“I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.”

“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.”

“DisciplineI am old and I have hadmore than my share of good and bad. I've had love and sorrow, seen sudden deathand been left alone and of love bereft. I thought I would never love againand I thought my life was grief and pain. The edge between life and death was thin, but then I discovered discipline. I learned to smile when I felt sad, I learned to take the good and the bad, I learned to care a great deal morefor the world about me than before. I began to forget the "Me" and "I"and joined in life as it rolled by: this may not mean sheer ecstasybut is better by far than "I" and "Me.”

“I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment.”

“You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.”