Some people always sigh in thanking God.
The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock.
A mistake is simply another way of doing things
News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.
The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex.
To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?
Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.
The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.
There are days when you're in a good groove and the actor really understands the part and comes as prepared every day as you are and is so inside it. And then there's the day where, for whatever reason, it's just a harder slog. And I feel like those are the days where all the preparation and everything becomes more necessary because you have to find a third route there.
It's impossible to feel good about yourself if you are doing things that you aren't proud of. . . . It's essential that you. . . [do] things you can respect and admire.
My mother really was an extraordinary, inspirational, tough, cool, sexy, funny woman and that's the kind of woman I've always surrounded myself with. It's my friends, particularly my wife, who is not only smarter than and stronger than I am but, occasionally taller too. I think it all goes back to my mother. My father and my stepfather prized whit and resolve in the women they were with above all things. And they were among the rare men who understood that recognising somebody else's power does not diminish your own.