“We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.”
“When you turn 50, you realize that the better part of your life is past, ... Mothers usually don't get to spend five weeks with their 21-year-old son. We drove all over the place.”
“He understands that if I'm not happy - which was not an understanding in my first marriage - if I'm not happy as an actor the marriage isn't going to work. And conversely, if he is not politically fulfilled - Maybe that's the second time around - I don't know. We're absolute equals in this. And it feeds the passion.”
“There's no question what Hepburn would say. She would go back to what she's always said about Tracy. "He's a man's man. He put out his big paw and smacked me and that's what it's all about. And I just fell to my knees. And that's what I loved. And that's the way it's always been."”
“The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.”
“We would very much like to work together again. And we've talked about it for years. For some reason it's been elusive. She would take a movie idea to a network and I would not be available. And of course Voyager happened and it's just been - it's not been in the cards. But I'd give my eye-teeth to work with her.”
