I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.

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.

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

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 hope my work has inspired young artists. I have always tried to maintain my freedom as an artist and I feel it is one of the main reasons I have been successful.

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

Opportunity lies in the place where the complaints are.

In all honesty I think that I've had a very normal life, even though I've been making movies since I was 9.

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

Life is a climb and it's a struggle getting to the top but the drop to the bottom can be quick and so I think you have to embrace every moment of the day.

I tried to walk into Target, but I missed. I think the entrance to Target should have people splattered all around.

What people need to understand is, that if they are eating animals, they are promoting cruelty to animals.

Each new development starts from something else. It does not come out of a blue sky. You make use of that which has already entered the mind.... That is the real reason for accumulating knowledge.

We will suffer the moment we take our eyes off the End and get lost in the means.