I like to know where I'm going to be at seven o'clock.

And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.

Now my way of doing it is I always get disappointed, but there's always a level of high quality.

I like to know where I'm going to be at seven o'clock.

I don't like sitting around sets - I don't like the unpredictability of it.

The truth of the matter is I stayed in L.A. raising my children, and when they went to college, I packed my bags along with them and came to New York and looked for parts in the theatre, because that's always what I preferred doing.

I don't like to cry in public, unless I'm getting paid for it.

Here's probably a short answer - I never feel in this piece that I'm stepping out and being Andrea Martin. I always feel like I'm Golde, so whatever Golde would do within those realms, that's what I would do.

For pragmatic reasons, I love the routine. I love the structure of it. I love knowing that my days are free. I know where I'm going at night. I know my life is kind of orderly. I just like that better.

I'm sick of the treadmill.

When I started out in Canada, I did a lot of voice-overs and commercials.

I love the comradery of doing theatre that you don't get in film.

Oh yeah, I'm about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards.

Here's the thing: I did one episode of Deep Space Nine, and I loved everybody that I worked with. People couldn't have been kinder... But I had a really, really difficult time with the prosthetics.

But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.

I could have stayed in L.A. and done sitcoms for awhile and will probably go back and do one I hope.

I was stuck in the benefits of being a known comedian.

It's really important to me to keep growing and keep finding new things.

I think probably, the makeup artists don't really know how long it's going to take until they really work with your face and they kind of mold it and build it as they're going along.

Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally.

I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer.

I started out in summer stock, and that's really what I prefer.

I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked.

Having the courage to say no when all your friends are saying yes is one of the most difficult things you'll ever have to do. Doing it, however, is one of the biggest charges you can ever make to your personal battery. I call this 'won't power.'

It's just hard to meet new people, in my position.

Everything we say has metamessages indicating how our words are to be interpreted: Is this a serious statement or a joke? Does it show annoyance or goodwill? Most of the time, metamessages are communicated and interpreted without notice because, as far as anyone can tell, the speaker and the hearer agree on their meaning.

Stringent standards of self evaluation can make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures.

If there is ever to be an end to the conflict, the Palestinians must recognize the Jewish people's right to a homeland and the existence of an independent Jewish state in the homeland of the Jewish people.

Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

Sometimes you can learn things from the way a person denies something. The choice of lies can be almost as helpful as the truth.

The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.

Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty

Tech executives have historically been owners of significant portions of their companies' stock so there is a propensity for them to diversify as a rule.

Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren't treated like everybody else. Even I got called out in a couple of meetings that I thought was unfair.

The wages of sin is death

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

I hid the fact that I had an aneurysm for a very long time. I was embarrassed, and I just felt like no one needed to know because it made me look weak. Who would of thought someone my age, at 23, had a brain aneurysm?

Once people have seen four or five Henry Moores, they will have a sense of great art.

Show, don't tell, is a mantra repeated by tutors of creative writing courses the world over. As advice for amateurs, it is sound and helps avoid character profiling, unactivated scenes, and broken narrative frames.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

Let's be honest with one another: almost everything is too long except life, and I know people who wouldn't even concur with that exception.

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems.

A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.

Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about it, and not letting the tweet or the buzzing of your BlackBerry call your attention.

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over