To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.
My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.
If you're cast right you can actually just let yourself go because all your gestures will be right, all your intonations will be right because you just somewhere understand who this person is.
I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area.
Mitch and I have known each other for such a long time, and we're both so pleased to be given this opportunity at this point in our lives to play characters that we've never really had a chance to play before. It's a great gift. Plus we're wise enough to appreciate it.
You don't choose the theatre; The theatre choses you
I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I wouldn't be able to afford to have my mother with me this summer. So television has been very good to me.
If we are trying to account for mobilization, we have to ask, under what conditions do outraged forms of knowing lead to social mobilizations and movements? So awareness alone does not suffice, and neither does outrage.
It's as if when I open myself up to every perception, things create their own focus.
I'm kind of effectively bipolar.
I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.