“Sydney’s a beautiful city. It was a great experience.”

Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.

Everything will be better in the morning. It always is.

I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between – I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn’t exist, which I really appreciated.

We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn’t always stay the same.

I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don’t do publicity if I don’t like the film.

I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people’s reactions to my aging.

It’s also very painful, because I feel, and I know, probably all women my age and older feel like we’re better and have more to give and are more fun now.

I look back on my life like everybody does but not just career. I mean I look back on my life as a whole, so I don’t think that I dwell there or anything and in terms of work I hope that there is a lot in front of me.

I’m afraid of being lazy and complacent. I’m afraid of taking myself too seriously.

Some of the best auditions I’ve ever had have been when my agent called and said, ‘They want you 20 minutes ago, in an office in Century City, to see you for something.’

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.

Agriculture is the greatest and fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.

The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child’s life.

Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide.

I won the city scoring championship as a senior.

This 1965. We went to trial on our city. We were obviously borrowing tactics and strategy from the Black freedom movement, and we were echoing their approach to things.

Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles, no one is actually from Los Angeles.