I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.

It's the thing that you do well that brings you to prominence. The very thing that brings you to success can also be like a curse, because then people think that's all you can do.

I got into Julliard on almost a full scholarship.

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.

Really, can anyone drink several martinis at lunch?

Lawrence of Arabia is the ultimate movie, deeply cinematic.

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.

I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.

Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?

Audrey Hepburn's face was made for the camera.

The older I get the more I try not to waste my time on negative energy.

It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life.

I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.

I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn.

Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me.

You make a choice whether or not to turn that TV on. We didn't even have a television in the house.

I think people think Jim Carrey's just wild and crazy. He really is very disciplined. It is true of Eddie Murphy and Robin Williams as well.

I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.

Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.

If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic.

You have to hold your bloody own or you're lost.

It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress.

I wanted to show people I can do things other than the sophisticated bitch.

The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct.

I wish I didn't have to live up to anything.

Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves.

I'd much rather be famous for being a fabulous bitch than being, She does that nice wife really well.

In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place.

I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.

Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better.

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.

You can only do the work to the very best of your ability.

You are always damned by things that you do well as an actor.

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'.

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion.

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.

I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.

Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.

You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture.

Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.