I wanted to end it now, like a bad TV show turned off in the middle.

Never give up on your dream...Perseverance is all important. If you don't have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep trying after you've been told you should quit, you'll never make it.

I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.

A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.

She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hated herself so there wasn't much point in trying to do better.

They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures

I've decided that the worst part of loneliness isn't being alone. It's being forgotten.

He doesn't comment on any of the music I play: Sonny Rollins followed by AC/DC followed by the Broadway score from My Fair Lady.

Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.

Has it ever occurred to you that nothing occurs to God?

It was hard to be taken seriously being model-turned-actress. I needed to work on my acting chops. There are so few parts available that are good for women.

The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.

Who can do anything after Beethoven?

Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.

We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by a surge of selfishness.

Education and knowledge are the power of the minorities in this country

What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?

People are not killed by earthquakes alone, but by collapsed buildings.