Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.

Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.

Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

If we want to know our God-given gifts, we must know the giver.

Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.

I'm happy that I took time off to become a mom and raise my daughter properly and build a bond between the two of us.

Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.

Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.

Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that.

You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.

I'd say it's never a challenge to present white and heteronormative privilege. The hard thing is to write any other way.

The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.

If you want to become good at something, do it as often as possible. If you want to become an expert at it, do it every day.