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.

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.

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.

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

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.

History is lived through and, for the fortunate, survived by people.

If you're brave enough to follow truth it will shatter you and your illusions at the same time.

Never waste an unsaid word of praise and never praise the said words of anger.

Don't ask God to cram His plan into your puny little mind, because then God would be limited by your understanding.

You don't luck into integrity. You work at it.

If I was like some of the characters I played, I'd probably be dead by now.

Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.

Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.

It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?

My mother paid eight dollars a month for rent. When she had it. Mostly we were evicted, because she couldnt afford to pay the eight dollars a month.