When I opened up in "Gaslight," for instance, playing that narky maid, that all came about from my experience and my training up to that point, and so nothing was wasted.

Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.

You just have to be open and ready, and let it all happen.

The purpose of etiquette is to provide an easy set of rules which we can follow when we are in a hurry and want to make sure that we do not give offense to anybody.

I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!

Here I am, I still go on, you know, like the tides.

We all have levels of performance.

I'm the bionic woman. I have a very strong constitution, and I take excruciatingly good care of myself.

The older I get, the more I realize how much I have missed because I was so busy entertaining that audience and so busy pursuing a career.

... because lifestyles are changing constantly the rules of etiquette are changing too -- a little slower than lifestyles perhaps, but still changing.

I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life. But I want to dance and bop around, and I did, and I can.

In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.

This was a different kind of a kiss, not one that leads to something, but a hard, painful one.It was a goodbye kiss.

That's the thing about acting is that it's reacting to what's going on around you.

Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones There's something in this richness that I hate. I love the look, austere, immaculate, Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones.

Failure is not falling down but staying down.

Luck is very important. Of course you can't wait for luck, because it won't come. While you start a journey, luck may eventually come to you.

There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will keep me from being happy.

I love to rock, but it's liberating not to always have to keep up with the freight train that is the Old 97's

Edward's only human Bella. He's going to react like any other boy.