I thought she'd [her mother] offer me some sympathy. Instead, she said, 'Don't you ever call me crying again! You wanted to be in this business, so you better toughen up!' And I did.

Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.

My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!

It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.

I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge.

You have to remember the value of your individuality - that you have something special and different to offer that nobody else can.

Don't push your weaknesses, play with your strengths

I have the stardom glow.

I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

Trust compared to a valuable stone that has been shattered, cannot be restored to its original form.

The mere telling of how a need was met is often like telling of a need, which is asking crookedly instead of straight out. But this much I will say--with every fresh need has come a fresh supply.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

I don't see myself as an icon, because I just wear whatever I want to wear.

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, "Beware of truly sweet people. They have will of iron.

Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.

Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.

The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.