"Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art."

"The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it."

"Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation."

"But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school."

"I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down on you, and it's all caught on film or onstage."

"Work is a necessary evil to be avoided."