The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration.
Enjoy things even when you’re screwing up.
As I grew up, everything started getting grey and dull. I could still remember the amazing intensity of the world I'd lived in as a child, but I thought the dulling of perception was an inevitable consequence of age - just as a lens of the eye is bound gradually to dim. I didn't understand that clarity is in the mind.
The problem's always been to deal with the fear. Cos the fear is pretty. . . it ruins everybody really.
If it weren't for fear, I wouldn't have to teach you a damn thing
The improvisation had to be in public, because you only get value playing to strangers.
Every theatre worth anything has somebody in the middle of it who is driving it; like Joan Littlewood with her theatre.
I think that a person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If this person puts his money at the service of others, then he is rich, very rich.
A quart bottle should hold a quart.
I loved him [Prince], the world loved him. Now he's at peace with his Father. Rest in power, Prince , my brother.
Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story greases the hoists and pulleys, it causes adrenaline to surge, shows us the way out, down, or up, and for our trouble, cuts for us fine wide doors in previously blank walls, openings that lead to the dreamland, that lead to love and learning, that lead us back to our own real lives as knowing wildish women.