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

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.

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

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.

I have a girlfriend who talks like that all the time. Who constantly complain about their periods and plumbing and stuff.

You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable.

Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

Allow love to fill the places where anxiety now resides.

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.

People tell me what to do every single day. They think I'm boring. I'm Disney kid. So, there's that.

You have to be submitted for the Pulitzer, and unbeknownst to us, a choral director whom I know had submitted us.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.

I didn't have to wear a mask on Halloween to scare people, so I didn't need one to cover my face on the field!