I've never had plastic surgery, but if they made a new invention for making people taller, I'd be the first to have the surgery.

My favorite part of my appearance is my height. I'm five foot one and I feel feminine being small.

Yes, I was actually an acting teacher for a while.

When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character.

If a woman is comfortable with herself, I think that's what radiates. I think the moment you start questioning your body and looks is when you get into trouble.

I've always wanted to act since I was little.

I was so naive when I began acting, professionally.

I act with my gut instincts.

I've always wanted to act and I can't think of anything else I'd want to do, honestly.

You really have to be a morning person if you want to be a teacher.

Human cultures construct an enormous variety of environments through language, technology, and institutions. We are born in and die in these systems of symbols and imagination.

I couldn't remember my name for weeks. I'd be at the theater and hear them calling 'Miss Stanwyck, Miss Stanwyck,' and I'd think 'Where is that dame? Why doesn't she answer? By crickie, it's me!

I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.

I imagine them very clearly and then attempt to describe what I can see. Sometimes I draw them for my own amusement! (talking about her characters and scenes)

What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: 'He passed it on.'

The perception of him as brooding and dark and miserable, that is baloney. Kurt Cobain was a funny dude.

I can't concern myself with how viewers feel.

The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted.

Keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate... not following the thought stream.

I freely admit that I am a bit of a misfit.