This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.
You can't take responsibility for everything. You can't have that kind of control At some point, it's all out of our hands.
Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul.
You are not an extra in somebody else's film. You are the star in your own life.
I am desperate and vulnerable. . . . I am always terrified. . . . Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.
Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a tangible acknowledgement that your efforts have made a difference.
I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.
I have been sitting around waiting for an opportunity to get to do something that matters for so long. Not just that matters in the world, which I think that season, in particular, had a very important meaning for a lot of people, but for me, as an actress.
Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.
I enjoyed seven years at Wimbledon and there were high and low points.
I'd trained to be a diplomat but the state department said I was too liberal. I saw an ad in the New York Times. . . a hack Californian editor came to New York to butcher some films and he needed an assistant. For some reason I read it that day and it changed my life. I went to work for him and he was horrible, butchering these masterpieces by Antonioni, Visconti, but I learned enough to know what he was doing wrong.