You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

Never do nothing you wouldnt want printed on the front page of The New York Times.

If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything

We were wavering around like a ship without a sail.

I'm a born and bred New Yorker. I belong here. Everytime I leave it's like losing a leg.

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.

Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?

Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.

I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward.

He’d never forgotten the sweep of her soft mouth against his, the taste of her sweetness, like strawberries, and the way she fired his insides to life.

Every time I get a script in my inbox, it's like a little Christmas present. It's so exciting to see what they've cooked up.

Our approach [to global security] has changed by the way we've elevated development. The biggest lesson is to recognize global responsibility.

Food: Part of the spiritual expression of the French, and I do not believe that they have ever heard of calories.

Quit saying you don't have time. You have time for what you make time for in life.

Tomorrow I'll get over you if I just get through tonight.

Consistent prayer is the desire to do right.

I write a syndicated column for The Washington Post that goes to about 200, 250 papers.

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.