Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.

I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm.

There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.

Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?