Doing makeup was a way to create characters, only I got tired of doing it for other people.

A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.

I started doing makeup to make a living. Then I said, You're not supposed to be putting powder on other people. You're supposed to be powdering yourself.

Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.

Sometimes in life you have to make a decision and make sacrifices.

Some people in LA are addicted. They have to be here. My personal life is stronger than my professional life, in terms of priorities.

I truly have a love-hate thing with the press.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

I was doing an hour drama on television and a Jackie Chan movie in Toronto, so I was on a plane every three days.

I have a fuller figure and sometimes like to hide my legs. Palazzo pants accentuate my small waist and make me feel a little like Katharine Hepburn.

When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.

Maktub" (It is written.)

i know i'm something, i can do something that what you cannot. Marvelous ! yes you may be an achiever. But i'm not failure, i'm who i'm

Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasant waters for our old age.

One of the best ways to cultivate a possibility mind set is to prompt yourself to dream one size bigger than you normally do. Let's face it, most people dream too small, they don't think big enough.

I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.

In the struggle for the soul of American Jewry, the Orthodox model has triumphed.

The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it.