A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back.

Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities.

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.

My heart's in really great shape thanks to spinning classes.

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning.

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.

Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!

I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.

How rich is anyone who can simply see human faces.

I miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for me.

The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

I always had a strong support system. My parents always supported the stuff that I did.

A man is no better than he has to be.

A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.

I am as conservative as anyone running in this [president's] race, but I am a conservative that can win. That's a big deal.

There’s plenty that poetry cannot do. But the miracle, of course, is how much it can do, how much it does do.

Look upon others as being part of yourself.