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

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.

Realize you can chase your dreams with just believing. Dont be afraid to believe in some magic if proof not in front in of you follow your gut.

Every newborn baby I see glows with love a glow I see coming from the Soul.

No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story.

If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.

There are so many people that use "following your dreams" as an excuse to not work. When in reality, following your dreams, successfully, is nothing but work.

It's really important for me to look good before a race. I definitely think if I feel I look good, it makes me feel more confident.

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.

Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang.

If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.

I write other people songs. Recirculate it. It's the music business.

We love all kinds of music: We love pop music, we love rock music, we love R & B and country, and we just pull from all our influences. So I don't really take offense as long as people are coming out to the shows and buying the records and becoming fans of the music. At the end of the day, the music is what's gonna speak to you.

'The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me.

As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them.

Skinny Cow ice cream and candy - like dancing - brings a little bit of fun to your day.

As an actress, you have to keep yourself fresh and new.

I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't quite know what I've written. People don't read you too closely. Perhaps, after I've died, they'll look at my stuff, and read it through, and find there's more in it. That may be wrong, but that's what I comfort myself with.

Nothing makes the earth so spacious as to have friends at a distance.

I'm not a fashionista, definitely. I'm an actress. I have a great team working with me.

The record was only released in the UK, and then when the idea for the remixed album came about, which was an idea that I've had for the longest time, I said this would be great song to remix as well, and so we did it.

Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style.

When you're on a scale like we are in 170 countries and hundreds of thousands of people, you have a single point of view.

Early in last season, George was very worried about other people's emotions, especially how they saw her, and felt she was outside looking in. This year, she still hopes people will accept her for who she is, but if they don't, she's OK with that.

Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.