“I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.”

“I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.”

“Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.”

“I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.”

“Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.”

“I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.”

“I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.”